[MPlayer-dev-eng] poll idea (and the results will be useful for packagers)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 at 00:13, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 00:29, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > So the point of the poll would be to see what should be enabled by
> > default in the official binary packages.
> 
> Binary packages are inherently flawed in the sense that features can't
> be optionally be enabled based on what else is installed. This is also
> part mplayer deficiency, and also advantage, in that it has no capability
> to open .so's runtime to discover availability of external libs. Advantage
> in the sense that it doesn't suffer penalty of dynamic linking into that
> code.

And your point is? I already know all that.

> > Obviously the poll would need to be web-based for greater accessibility.
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> I hope that's a joke. Maybe sarcasm/troll, in which case I'd feel stupid
> for replying seriously to the first part which seemed serious.

No, that was quite serious, too. Why do you think it's a joke?

R.

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