"release" timeline...

[umlaeute]

i know, i know.

i haven't followed the recent development of gmerlin and friends (but I'm glad to see some activity), but...

as a Debian packager I would highly welcome it, if we could have more releases of the gmerlin suite (gmerlin, encoders, avdecoders, gavl,...), so:

what is holding back a new release? i know that there are always things to do and fix and update and improve..., but are there any showstoppers right now?

[umlaeute]

just to clarify my position here:

• currently Debian ships some random snapshot of gmerlin and friends, in order to be able to compile it with recent FFmpeg (and probably other dependencies):

package	version
gavl	2.0.0~svn6298
gmerlin-avdecoder	2.0.0~svn6298
gmerlin-encoders	2.0.0~svn6278
gmerlin	2.0.0~svn6298

these appear to work together (at least, there are no bugreports indicating otherwise), but as you can see, it is still using a snapshot of the SVN repository.

[bplaum]

Good point you are raising :)

Currently I have the following showstoppers:

• Some occasional deadlocks in the GUI player, which are obviously difficult to fix. Do you know any tools for that? Helgrind floods my console with false positives.

• Some smaller bugs in the HLS code, which can make watching TV a short pleasure. I just need some time and patience to fix these.

And, like always documentation and so on.

Gmerlin is for me, what a model railway is for others: It keeps e busy, I learn a lot, but it would get boring once it's finished :) On the other hand you are completely right, that the code should be released sooner or later. Actually I'm already concentrating on the showstoppers and don't work on new features.

Once a release is out, I'd like to focus on the gavftools. Would be a nice playground.

[umlaeute]

cool.

also: a release is not the end. consider it as a way to communicate to people that "these parts of the gmerlin project are known to somewhat work together."