Re: reducing/simplifying codebase
Nico <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.mplayer.g2.devel |
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Diego Biurrun wrote: >[email protected] writes: > > D Richard Felker III wrote: > > > Agree mostly, but a bit undecided... It sucks for users to have to > > > install special libs to compile a working mplayer, especially when > > > those libs are considered "risky" by distro maintainers, and thus not > > > included in distros. > > So they are gonna drop it out of MPlayer too :) > > BTW Joe User usually installs libdvd* stuff anyways, just in case.. So we > > might actually drop mpdvdkit. > >I don't think Joe User does that, but since Joe User is such a >hypothetical person, let's not speculate any further. > >We can also make a compromise here: Remove libmpdvdkit, but add a link >to it on our download page and try to document it properly, something >like "Step X: download some extra libs". We might also build some >all-in-one packages for greater convenience, but this is just a wild >idea. > > mpdvdkit is guaranteed to compile and work out of the tarball, libdvd* dependencies aren't. IMHO if you don't want to be pestered by "boooh, doesn't compile" -> "me too" messages in the ML it's better to keep them. And one thing I would ADD to g2 is faad: it's always a nightmare to compile, as it's always half broken, and not all of the package is needed for mplayer > > > > Also when we port things from g1, we should consider > > > > - dropping .raw font support, imho freetype alone is enough. > > > Agree totally. > > Hold the horses ;) While personally I haven't used RAW fonts for about a year, > > the libttf-dependancy I think is a very good reason to keep RAW fonts. And on > > top of all the shit, only recent libttf works together with MPlayer... > >A new library dependency will not be a problem for G2, it will just >have an entirely new set of library dependencies, see above. Besides >when it will become usable and widely available moderately old libttf >libs will be enough. > >Diego > >_______________________________________________ >MPlayer-G2-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-g2-dev > > >