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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:34:11 -0400
From:      "Michael Johnson" <ahze@freebsd.org>
To:        "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, Luchezar Petkov <luchezar.petkov@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Port request: Songbird
Message-ID:  <b2203fed0703150634y3186a403ocaff601a489d4a4f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb5206420703120735g7ae5f083nedfcefcc2034be3d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/12/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/12/07, Luchezar Petkov <luchezar.petkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, guys.
> > I'd like to request a port for the Songbird media player. I know that
> > the FreeBSD GNOME team is trying not only to port GNOME to FreeBSD,
> > but to make FreeBSD better for the desktop. And Songbird is one of the
> > best open source desktop media players out there for sure. As I am
> > just a desktop user, I can't help with porting, but if you need
> > testers - I'm in.
>
> You can expect linux-songbird once we get our linux
> compat updated to fedora core 5. As for a native
> version, you'll probably have to beg ahze, he's the
> Mozilla-man :-)
>

I looked at it once or twice.. It's doable, but there's a good bit
hard-coded Linuxisms in songbirds Makefiles that will have to be
patched. I've seen a patch on the mailing list once for FreeBSD
but it's outdated now.

Michael



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