Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:19:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: riggs@rrr.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN Message-ID: <4B398369.7000904@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20091228212534.GD11463@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912130841040.19087@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <4B37F4EF.3080802@googlemail.com> <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net> <3f1fd1ea0912280925i618dc582x71da7ef9bae34a3e@mail.gmail.com> <20091228212534.GD11463@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Dec-28 18:25:41 +0100, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> wrote: >> Does anybody know why are we still using 3-year old version? > > The MPlayer Project no longer do "releases". Instead they only offer > daily snapshots of their SVN repo. It appears that the maintainer of > the MPlayer port has adopted a policy of waiting for an "official" > release before updating the port. That's not a realistic perspective at this point. Perhaps the mplayer maintainer would like to consider releasing the port to someone else if they are not interested in moving forward with a new version. > The FreeBSD ports system is designed around distfiles with fixed, known > content. This is not compatible with a mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 > that changes daily. A) More and more projects are moving to the "no official release" mode, so we need to move with the times. B) I don't think "daily" is a reasonable target, but neither is "every 3 years." Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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