[MPlayer-users] Why not make an installer?

[jason]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 13:27, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> 
> This is really just an issue for distributions to deal with, and it
> seems mplayer has no need to deal with this.

seems that of all parties involved, the distributions have the easiest
solution.  they simply build a version optimized for each cpu type they
support (like suse already does with kernels) and install the
appropriate one.

assuming the user is motivated, there are two options.  update from
latest distribution or learn how to compile it.

IMHO there is nothing worse than an experience i had installing software
which has complex dependencies which wanted soo bad to give the illusion
that its easy.  gui ran and asked a couple of easy questions and
proceeded to grind away for 30 minutes after which it said, "something
went wrong.  press exit to exit".  and that was that.  no explanation
and no way to fix. (some version of c++ development env for windows).