Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:46:23 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dead projects in ports tree Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0903011246y3ddd7aa0m93cfb162b293f991@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49a9eea5.Ke%2BY8TkWIWKHBRfY%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <7d6fde3d0902281509v6a98521as618421daf52b3abe@mail.gmail.com> <49a9eea5.Ke%2BY8TkWIWKHBRfY%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM, <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > Garrett Cooper <gmail.com!yanefbsd@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: > >> =A0 =A0 Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be >> marked deprecated and removed ... >> >> multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; >> no releases in the past 3 years > > This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :) > > While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port, > the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just > as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need > to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful. openquicktime never worked for me several years ago and I doubt that's changed until now. win32-codecs has been the only thing that's worked for me with quicktime. The quicktime format has advanced sufficiently in the past couple years that I doubt that it would properly support playing quicktime videos... That's part of what I'm driving at. Thanks, -Garrett
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