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redenisc	2009-11-05 , 09:09
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Originally Posted by qole

But redenisc, you have to remember that this is primarily a user forum, so people are going to click on the official installer on the web page, not download the source and compile the latest svn with the native libmatroska plugin. If you want users to have access to bleeding edge versions of the app, you have to provide a not-too-difficult way for them to download packaged binaries of these versions.

That's why there is http://nightlies.videolan.org/

You have to remember that most normal users want a trade-offs between features and stability, rather than always the latest features.

When you're writing a library such as FFmpeg, maybe you can ignore this problem. But when you're shipping end-user software to millions of (mostly clueless) Windows/MacOS/Linux users, you just cannot ship the latest GIT version to everybody everyday and without testing.

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