Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-Dec-28 18:25:41 +0100, Michal Varga <varga.mic...@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
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