Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
by throwaway11747 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @08:24AM
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The last issue that caused them to leave was their desire to move mpv to their own build system, which they believed they could write in a weekend. Other mpv developers thought that was a stupid idea and argued in favor of something more standard, such as meson. That was the last straw for both sides.
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
by latexr on Sunday August 18, 2024 @10:12AM
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> their own build system, which they believed they could write in a weekend.
That doesn’t seem right:
> (…) I started this over a year ago (…)
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7801#issuecomment-641...
> Other mpv developers thought that was a stupid idea and argued in favor of something more standard
That doesn’t seem right either. I just read the whole PR thread and I see a bunch of users arguing for it, not other maintainers.
The maintainer was certainly controversial and I found several commits and bad decisions which look to be almost universally hated, but it’s not clear to me this specific problem was what caused them to quit or that it was motivated by other maintainers.
If you could provide a source for your claim, it would be appreciated.