From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 06:28:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D560AC8E for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x22a.google.com (mail-qc0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96CF8326 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f170.google.com with SMTP id e9so3868888qcy.1 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:28:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=oEilsbMS+71luDZwkglgKA1BHgiGIzxoRPnZzvEwv4E=; b=o6hlUSR6iC25J+WUW4xhnq5Y4oQdDSwCXZROIs7k4PRq1Y2PLroDf+d1l2WulaFVNX BSOmgYIxOjwC9cPkF5LjORm1LbZPupYocQ1EJAvEkq/5dKkthZtqkzJ+526SBNc04gtz +PpNGLOi3uOmrOoahbk4S891XhVf7pW5IzVjCTrEXJDl3SH18by2ctvTfiIuRzaojtxk aUPLVvM6gSfQuF3UlAX7w8Uu07vsFviLQeBDprG+lgRUGTKXQouzIGbr+zJ1JhnD51Cu EhW6rMEhIGL1dm7PEQJq6eDZCNyhFY17cDOsRf5lrcmQV8Istcp2LDw2D5Mez/LsM+TI EFwA== X-Received: by 10.229.192.7 with SMTP id do7mr47018qcb.1.1395901697631; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:28:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.42.134 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:27:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1395315126.32524.YahooMailNeo@web141401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1395315126.32524.YahooMailNeo@web141401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> From: Anton Afanasyev Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:27:57 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Port Request: Mono Moonlight To: Paul Pathiakis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:28:19 -0000 On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Paul Pathiakis wrote: > I'd like to see moonlight ported to FreeBSD. It's software to allow the > use of Microsoft Silverlight. It would be very useful to allow streaming > of Netflix videos (Silverlight format) to a FreeBSD desktop. > I'm not sure if the latest version of Moonlight is good enough to support Netflix as I have not used it for this purpose. However, Moonlight development is dead, and Silverlight itself seems to be just as dead. (at least some of) Our Linux brethren are using Pipelight, e.g. see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight. I think porting Pipelight would be more beneficial than reviving Moonlight, as it, at the very least, would provide full Silverlight functionality instead of the subset offered by Moonlight. Anton