From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 8 8:51:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C88D37B401 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crucible.athame.co.uk (guru164.netsonic.fi [194.29.193.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2058F43E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lauri@kde.org) Received: from amavis by crucible.athame.co.uk with scanned-ok (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RanH-000519-00 for ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:51:19 +0300 Received: from pc144.net16.koping.se ([195.163.16.144] helo=192.168.15.151) by crucible.athame.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Ramj-00050K-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:50:45 +0300 From: Lauri Watts To: Robert Watson , Alan E Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] kdemultimedia stomps on graphics/mpeg-lib's .so files Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:50:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.5 Cc: KDE FreeBSD List , FreeBSD Ports List References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200207081750.15606.lauri@kde.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 at crucible.athame.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 July 2002 16.01, Robert Watson wrote: > Sounds like the KDE people should probably just rename their library to > kdejpeg. :-) Surely this pops up for people on other platforms too? How > is it resolved in Linux? Ok, I've been doing some investigation, and come up with the following: The mpeg-lib port has no maintainer (well it's ports@) The library that the mpeg-lib port installs is abandonware - the last relea= se=20 was in August 1999 and the author states on the web page cited in pkg-descr= =20 that it is unmaintained, and he has no interest in keeping it updated. (see= =20 http://starship.python.net/~gward/mpeglib/ ) The only application we've managed to come up with that actually uses it to= day=20 is Gimp (however, the gimp-devel port also uses it.) The KDE mpeglib is actively maintained, (see http://mpeglib.sourceforge.net= ),=20 and has been part of KDE since just after KDE 1.1.2 was released. However,= =20 we had it disabled here on FreeBSD until 3.0 was released, because it is=20 threaded, and until this time didn't work very well. This probably explain= s=20 why we didn't hit this problem here earlier. It has, however, occurred on= =20 Linux for over 2 years, so I'm investigating some of the other solutions. It's not possible to rename the KDE mpeglib in KDE CVS, because doing so wo= uld=20 break our commitment to providing binary compatibility for all 3.x versions= =20 of KDE. We could rename it there for KDE 4 (which is a very long time away= )=20 if everyone is amenable. We could possibly rename it here on FreeBSD, but that would cause binary=20 incompatibility, and would place us back in the difficult situation we had= =20 before, where third party applications potentially require hackery to get=20 them to compile on FreeBSD. =20 Given that we've done a lot of work for 3.x to make FreeBSD a development=20 friendly KDE platform (something it hasn't really been before now), and=20 because I don't want to be responsible for breaking binary compatibility, I= 'm=20 personally not very happy about renaming our version.=20 Regards, =2D --=20 Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9KbSy/gUyA7PWnacRAvmmAKCZUoEHEJI0dNF9PVfRLe58A4NoNwCeP9sP MhNWRvesPn4PZmD3w1mIOwQ=3D =3D43hb =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message