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From: Doug Barton on 28 Dec 2009 23:19 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Dec-28 18:25:41 +0100, Michal Varga <varga.michal(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Does anybody know why are we still using 3-year old version? > > The MPlayer Project no longer do "releases". Instead they only offer > daily snapshots of their SVN repo. It appears that the maintainer of > the MPlayer port has adopted a policy of waiting for an "official" > release before updating the port. That's not a realistic perspective at this point. Perhaps the mplayer maintainer would like to consider releasing the port to someone else if they are not interested in moving forward with a new version. > The FreeBSD ports system is designed around distfiles with fixed, known > content. This is not compatible with a mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 > that changes daily. A) More and more projects are moving to the "no official release" mode, so we need to move with the times. B) I don't think "daily" is a reasonable target, but neither is "every 3 years." Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Stefan Ehmann on 29 Dec 2009 07:40 On Monday 28 December 2009 19:06:51 Frank Staals wrote: > On 12/28/09 15:47, eculp wrote: > >>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> Does anybody have a port for building mplayer from SVN? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks! > > On a sidenote: I used to build mplayer from svn regularly on my previous > system. Updating mplayer usually was quite painless. Simply 'svn up && > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayersvn && gmake && gmake install'. > In 99% of the cases rebuilding went perfectly; no patches required or > anything, and I rebuilded mplayer almost weekly. This was on a i386 > system by the way, on my current amd64 install I run into problems > trying to compile the current svn snapshots. > > I know it is not as nice as simply having a port. But if you realy need > the svn-releases for some feature XYZ it may be a (temporary) solution. It's not that easy. I tried to compile mplayer from SVN some weeks ago. Basic compile worked fine, but x264 support was lacking. As it turned out, the x264 port was too old. Tried to compile x264 from SVN, it complained binutils are too old. At this point I gave up. I'd like to see mplayer/mencoder/x264-svn ports. Actually, I'd prefer new proper releases, but that doesn't seem likely in the near future. One of the hardest parts is probably to pick a good SVN revision. Just picking the most recent version is not necessarily a good solution. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Lars Engels on 29 Dec 2009 08:31 Quoting Frank Staals <frank(a)fstaals.net>: > On 12/28/09 15:47, eculp wrote: >>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Does anybody have a port for building mplayer from SVN? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! > On a sidenote: I used to build mplayer from svn regularly on my > previous system. Updating mplayer usually was quite painless. Simply > 'svn up && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayersvn && gmake && gmake > install'. In 99% of the cases rebuilding went perfectly; no patches > required or anything, and I rebuilded mplayer almost weekly. This was > on a i386 system by the way, on my current amd64 install I run into > problems trying to compile the current svn snapshots. > > I know it is not as nice as simply having a port. But if you realy need > the svn-releases for some feature XYZ it may be a (temporary) solution. Are there any killer features missing in our old version from ports?
From: Frank Staals on 29 Dec 2009 13:05 On 12/29/09 14:31, Lars Engels wrote: > Quoting Frank Staals <frank(a)fstaals.net>: > >> I know it is not as nice as simply having a port. But if you realy need >> the svn-releases for some feature XYZ it may be a (temporary) solution. > > > Are there any killer features missing in our old version from ports? I don't really know. The reason that I used svn snapshots in the past was that my machine in combination with the mplayer port was unable to decode relatively high res h264 video while with the svn version there were some improvements which did make it possible. But that is a long time ago. -- - Frank _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: "Sean C. Farley" on 29 Dec 2009 15:03 I am jumping randomly into the thread. If we want to use some type of "release" for MPlayer based upon a snapshot from svn, how about using the same snapshot as used in Fedora (actually RPM Fusion)[1]? It has the advantages of already being created, tested(?) and easier to track bugs that users of Fedora may have already faced. Sean 1. http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/12/Everything/source/SRPMS/repoview/mplayer.html -- scf(a)FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
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