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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:08:25 -0300
From:      William Grzybowski <wg@freebsd.org>
To:        Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
Cc:        Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Heads up audio/video/graphics/multimedia/net/streaming port maintainers - ACTION REQUIRED
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
>> I have prepared a drop-in replacement for the ffmpeg port which uses
>> the recent 2.4 release. You can download it from:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~riggs/ffmpeg-2.4.tar.xz
>>
>> Please check whether the ports maintained by you build and link with
>> this version and prepare a suitable fix if necessary.
>>
>
> Any reason why you can't create an 'ffmpeg24' port so it can go live
> then people can create a a port option to turn on using the later
> version - then when the ports are all updated you can just 'switch it to
> the default'... that seems to be the way the ports tree has been handled
> over the last year.

Or create a ffmpeg23 port and switch all ports that cant handle ffmpeg
2.4 to that before it happens.
Thats how I handled the ffmpeg 0.x -> ffmpeg 2.x transition. It was
very smooth, all things considered :).



-- 
William Grzybowski / wg
FreeBSD Ports Committer



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