From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 04:19:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69120106566C for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:19:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59138FC16 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18611 invoked by uid 399); 29 Dec 2009 04:19:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 29 Dec 2009 04:19:53 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B398369.7000904@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:19:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <4B37F4EF.3080802@googlemail.com> <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net> <3f1fd1ea0912280925i618dc582x71da7ef9bae34a3e@mail.gmail.com> <20091228212534.GD11463@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20091228212534.GD11463@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: riggs@rrr.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Michal Varga Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:19:54 -0000 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Dec-28 18:25:41 +0100, Michal Varga 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/