From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 20:46:24 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 D4F7A1065672 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:46:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5008FC26 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:46:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so1163705ywt.13 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:46:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Q6IJN8klkdQNeEYzm+5YNf+1oXkZfOWZ0Y+9ruo9/Y0=; b=biGYZC9Seto5BAdtTz92F5PhGqf5P+gZw9UDtJ1y8J9Vs+w3RpDnk3Q9zFkg+P46oe kZd8JbMCUjWBXUHoXBWBT00lzJsqW72IcGM5BayDRJaViqwVg6JKUPwgN/E0dIP/1+3n 3toYrXsoRI+uG/0QCfU9aV63UPb1SNLuUy1gE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MSSA3/SG/BxWy2XLFUfJqds0Yr6Mq+SoPt+MbBxvnnJp+33OQYRaU+ZEmlmHwsBWKN mdw9eMtubyOfzO3vDkn8TXVbRTOkdfuvt7n1jbaPEGrXt2wBQBwDLN4v6xYDUbc+SyYv alAxuISXSDIC0iKEkdzosPRVuU6ertEmVsRMQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.113.17 with SMTP id l17mr745509agc.86.1235940383350; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:46:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49a9eea5.Ke+Y8TkWIWKHBRfY%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <7d6fde3d0902281509v6a98521as618421daf52b3abe@mail.gmail.com> <49a9eea5.Ke+Y8TkWIWKHBRfY%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:46:23 -0800 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0903011246y3ddd7aa0m93cfb162b293f991@mail.gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dead projects in ports tree 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: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:46:25 -0000 On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM, wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> =A0 =A0 Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be >> marked deprecated and removed ... >> >> multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; >> no releases in the past 3 years > > This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :) > > While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port, > the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just > as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need > to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful. openquicktime never worked for me several years ago and I doubt that's changed until now. win32-codecs has been the only thing that's worked for me with quicktime. The quicktime format has advanced sufficiently in the past couple years that I doubt that it would properly support playing quicktime videos... That's part of what I'm driving at. Thanks, -Garrett