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Date:      Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:08:16 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OSS Audio
Message-ID:  <y3mi-vgpb-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALM2mEmqHGk2fcZ1CG=Y0bMozdeAmiMxBqoboJrEWZq4b-MFRA@mail.gmail.com> (blubee blubeeme's message of "Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:55:47 %2B0800")
References:  <CALM2mEmqHGk2fcZ1CG=Y0bMozdeAmiMxBqoboJrEWZq4b-MFRA@mail.gmail.com>

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blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm looking at the information for audio/oss and it seems that the source
> used is different than the 4frontversion.
>
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> This port uses installation procedure that is very different from
> the one used by 4Front and is not supported by them.
>
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>
> The port also seems to lack a maintainer but a lot of work is being
> committed by  jbeich@FreeBSD.org, mat@FreeBSD.org and a few others.

Well, you've answered your own question. There's no maintainer to check
which downstream differences still make sense.

What is better maintained[1] and supported is FreeBSD fork of OSS - sound(4).
See OSSv4 compatibility in https://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html
Not sure why those bits haven't migrated into the manpage.

[1] 4Front vs. FreeBSD commit activity:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/opensound/git/ci/master/log/
    https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/sound/?view=log



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