On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:45:00 +0000 Carmel NY <carmel...@outlook.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:17:30 +0100, Johannes Jost Meixner stated: > > >Hi Rene, > > > >What do you think about deprecating Skype ports? > > > >As far as I'm aware, Microsoft does not allow them to connect anymore, > >thus they have become useless to keep. > > > > There are at least a couple of URLs dealing with this: > > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_linux-skype_startms-skype_installms/end-of-life-of-skype-for-linux-43/70fe7036-ddf3-4fa3-9c06-1bca3ec0226c > > https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34773/common-questions-with-skype-on-desktop-mac-and-linux > > The problem is that FreeBSD is still attempting to use a very old versions of > Skype. Microsoft could never be held responsible for supporting older versions > indefinitely, especially when updating is so easy on most systems. > > In truth, all of the "skype" ports should probably be removed since they don't > or won't work for much longer, and the latest version of skype imported to the > ports tree. > [stripped CC] Where can I get the latest version ? There is no need to remove skype4 port (yet). It works fine after sed(1) - I'm using skype every day ;-) also, 8.x is too buggy and looks ugly (i'm forced to use it on another laptop with linux) -- wbr, Sergey _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
