Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:47:15 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Matt Olander <Matt@iXsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alexander Subject: Re: [Fwd: porting the RealPlayer] Message-ID: <20060820214715.0897b9de@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <44E8A79B.6050702@iXsystems.com> References: <44E8A79B.6050702@iXsystems.com>
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:19:07 -0700 Matt Olander <Matt@iXsystems.com> wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says > they would *love* to port a native version of the Real player to > FreeBSD. Yay! She even showed me that they have an older FreeBSD dev > environment set up and are ready to start to try compiling it for > release after we get it up to date. Yay ! Good work :) > We need a couple of FreeBSD experts to assist with=20 > questions/expertise/feedback to make sure this gets finished ;-) > Please send me your name/email off list and I'll reply to her with a=20 > shortlist of who can help them. Since it's great to volunteer others ;-) maybe netchild@ (cc'ed) has time for this ? > -------- Original Message -------- [ ... ] > Also, we're currently only running nightly builds for the stable > branch on FreeBSD. Do you think we should be running the current > branch as well? That's where all the new functionality is going - > like playlists and Windows Media (ahem.. if you have a license for > it). Depending on how long porting work takes, FreeBSD may want to > just skip the currently released player and go for all the new > technology. =46rom our point of view it would be no problem to have both in the Ports Tree (The second as -devel). --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right, they see it is easier than trading. And it has its pleasures. I feel it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer rewards. -- Apella, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8
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