Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:25:41 +0100 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> Cc: "army.of.root" <army.of.root@googlemail.com>, Denis Shaposhnikov <dsh@wizard.volgograd.ru>, Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN Message-ID: <3f1fd1ea0912280925i618dc582x71da7ef9bae34a3e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net> References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912130841040.19087@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <4B37F4EF.3080802@googlemail.com> <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net>
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> wrote: >>> I have a "port" for building the latest exported snapshot from SVN, but >>> it requires manual editing because the extract dir changes daily. >> >> >> Hi, >> >> does your port deinstall cleanly ? - I would love to use an mplayer >> version newer than the 3-year old RC. >> If yes, I would very appreciate if you could send it to me :) > > > I'll go the old "Me Too" route. =C2=A0I like the idea very much. > > Look forward to using it. > Does anybody know why are we still using 3-year old version? I mean, mplayer (and its brother mencoder) are one of "THE" killer apps on *nix, and I see obscure 20-year old games being updated more often in the ports collection. Did something specific happen to mplayer that it ended in this state? I could hardly believe the reason is only that upstream decided to stop releasing tarballs, after all, this never stopped anybody in creating -devel ports. Why was mplayer different? Is there any background info? s.
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