Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:38:10 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Rich Neese <r.neese@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Skype 4.0 Message-ID: <20443.43842.531258.172276@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4FDBA4E7.40209@gmail.com> References: <20120615130839.2bbb9d51@scorpio> <CA%2BQLa9CrNGzp-7zgPmVgs=mGmaNdJ%2BBFiQ3AUTvv%2B2v1X=MGLQ@mail.gmail.com> <4FDBA4E7.40209@gmail.com>
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Rich Neese writes: > >> Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available. Is there any possibility of > >> getting it ported to FreeBSD? The latest version in ports is only > >> 2.x. <deletia> > I just wish skype would get off their buts and make a bsd > version. time to break code and make a opensource version That would be a lot of work, and subject to Skype altering with the protocol and various internal bits. Last time this came around on the gee-tar, I believe the root problem was higher versions don't work with the Linux emulation code. Improving that would also be a lot of work (probably involving different skills) ... but would benefit all programs that run under emulation. Robert Huff
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