From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 09:01:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECDE106564A for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73058FC19 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so2956699wfg.7 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:01:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=HH+D7ucrvsNizcso4r0QeYd5DDpq2An9eBoGV6wuPXI=; b=UCXuiuuszs+GOHjCJD85qm7O4vXuLb2OpbNNnp4+Q8okzXpOd4WW/nPnKm3kCUjT/8 rYGTxqFjsC7wipPyhnIS3pPZRXNX5Jmd90YSYSdUrK7BEK0HM9OX1oDJN3SRK9sDImVe YS2auaqk71c9Fsog2P1utuzSd2jFo3swXaZ+A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=MhsdIx0CMrXelg8kMmo7VygmCqCIwzKB1LoN3IkebwjgHLRfZOTY112a305LhHvsS9 hFuxzgkjK5VnM5ADe7tItBH9sQFIcLL7DJCFIOoDhRXDQp+ITXShHG+jss2aTL+BzGID 92owsWeujWaCOMZAIxhjFr/vOw4l4WuAhQCCU= Received: by 10.143.3.7 with SMTP id f7mr1470774wfi.92.1226997144198; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.167.19 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:32:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <786602c60811180032h673b099fod01248f06204cc6c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:32:24 +0900 From: "Thomas Zander" To: bf2006a@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <193678.16469.qm@web39108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <193678.16469.qm@web39108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new multimedia/mplayer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:59 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:44, bf wrote: > In a recent discussion on the mplayer > mailing lists, developers said that they were unlikely to release a new > tarball anytime soon ( but if you know differently, please let us know), and > that they recommended that everyone who was able to should use a more recent > svn snapshot. Can we therefore switch multimedia/mplayer to a recent svn > snapshot, to take advantage of the many bugfixes and improvements in svn? I am quite reluctant to have snapshot-only-versions in the ports tree, but of course I do see your point. It would be really desirable to have some kind of release engineering at the mplayer development front. But if there is no intent on their side to ever do that, we might need to switch to a semi-predictable/regular cycle of update our ports tree to snapshots to make features (and more importantly security fixes) accessible to the users. However, I would appreciate some comments from the list subscribers regarding this issue. Should we 1) use svn snapshots of mplayer and update them every n weeks/months ? 2) stick with 1.0rc2 + security patches until rc3 is released, whenever that may be? 3) ... Riggs