On Sunday 22 February 2009 19:14:00 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 February 2009 18:23:18 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > > That would be great Rex.. Are you gonna grab it from the kdeextras
> > > > snapshot or version 0.11a?
> > >
> > > The release is what should be packaged, random snapshots are not that
> >
> > good
> >
> > > an idea to package unless there's a good reason.
> > >
> > > Kevin Kofler
> >
> > It would then get packaged with kdemultimedia. There wouldn't be a
> > separate package. Besides, KMplayer is now part of kdeextras. The
> > current version in the snapshots are stable version. I've extracted and
> > noticed that there is no Beta or RC candiate attached to the version
> > number. It is Version 4.2.0. The previous version that I had installed
> > was 4.1.0 RC1. So, to keep up to date with whats happening with
> > kdeextras I think it would be a good idea to use kdeextras.
>
> But using snapthots is almost never a good idea in general, unless
> you're willing to track upstream developments *very* closely.
>
It's, of course, always up to you. You could of course for now use 0.11a and then of course when KMplayer gets included in stable kdeextra tarballs use them then. But as it stands I'm quite happy with KMPlayer. Maybe a well placed email to the developer would be inorder.


Eli



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