On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: |http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html | |I wouldn't expect a flame war on this but this article has urged me to |download and install mplayer. I would like to see how a bad linux |application looks like in it's most natural form..
IMO Mplayer is a not a "bad linux application" as the author makes it out to be ... gcc 2.96 is not an official release and mplayer team are the not the only ones complaining, http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html , why redhat should stick to something *propreitary* is beyond me .. esp. considering that 3.x has been out for quite some time now. And mplayer cannot be distributed in the binary form(licensing issues)... and the script autodetects a LOT of details about your system .... and I've never had any problems with compiling the software... and only the most stable features are built by default.. the experimental stuff needs to be enabled explicitly... the guy downloads stuff from CVS and expects the convenience of a package ! And all that huge messages/warnings about 2.96 ... if you can *open* your eyes and read the warning ... it actually tells you how to bypass it. (I think it was put more like what we have discussed here about teaching people to unsubscribe! and thus prevent FAQ#1 ! :-)) I wonder if the guy ever installed StarOffice ... I had a tougher time getting Star Office to install (the /net option) than getting mplayer to work for me. And the Russian guys stole the code... and claimed it to be their own! (There was a thread on this on Slashdot too) Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
