Re: [transcode-users] CVS HEAD usage survey

[Maik Holtkamp <s-y-l@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

0n 06/09/21@xx:07 Francesco Romani told me:

> I'd like to know how many users are running a self-compiled CVS HEAD version
> and how many are still stuck on 1.0.x branch. I guess all the people that
> uses transcode packaged by distributions is using 1.0.2 (+ patches), but
> there is someone out there that runs HEAD? :)
> 
> OK, CVS HEAD isn't ready for prime time (there is some know bugs, most
> notably multilib troubles, an X11 issue and something else that I'm missing
> right now), but transcode users have a long tradition of courage and
> braveness ;)

I use gentoo's ~x86 packages (most multimedia packages are
masked ~x86 here).

Back in the 0.6.x days I compiled transcode myself on a SuSE 7.0 and
frankly speaking it was just a pain. You not only had to install a
bunch of -devel packages, some dependencies (IIRC e.g. mjpeg-tools)
were that kind of bug-patched by SuSE, that you have to take care of
them yourself, too :(. Fortunately the guys of the packman team
offer a superb service for SuSE users nowadays:

http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=150

IIRC I stopped following bleeding edge after Thomas posted something
like:

"Sometime transcode changes/add features while you are compiling"

as unfortunately what was true for features, was sometimes true for
bugs, too :(.

Afterwards I switched to debian and thanks to Christian Marillat's
excellent reposity headaches about updating transcode were gone.

In spite it shouldn't be that hard to compile transcode using 
gentoo, there are always that much construction sides here, that I
lack in time :(. Sorry.

-- 
bye maik

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