Eric, I must correct you. I am an avid fan of mplayer and I have been following the releases for a long time. Matter of fact, it was mplayer that made me look to macports to install mplayer, because it always took months for someone to release a package for Mac OSX. I will prove it by simply going to their download area by ftp:
ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ MacOSX MPlayerOSX_1.0rc1.dmg is dated 12/10/06 MPlayerOSX_1.0rc2.dmg is dated 04/30/08 Windows MPlayer-1.0rc1-gui.zip is dated 10/23/06 MPlayer-1.0rc2-gui.zip is dated 12/06/07 Source MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2 is dated 10/22/06 Mplayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2 is dated 10/07/07 You see how many MONTHS for Mac! -Altoine Eric Cronin wrote: > On Nov 16, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Altoine Barker wrote: > >> Well, let us say there is a new feature or security fix available on >> svn or cvs. You will have to wait until someone provides a package >> installer update before reaping the benefits. A real world example of >> this scenario would be mplayer. The mplayer package installer is >> always made last of all the updates. HTH >> >> -Altoine > > > MPlayer is probably not the best example to cite for this particular > situation, since they release both packages and full releases at about > the same rate of never... > > For things that auto-update via Sparkle or the new Google updater, there > is little advantage to having a Port unless there are optional > compile-time options of merit. For things which don't auto-update yet > (and anything using a .pkg installer) I can see some advantages to going > the mp route. > > Thanks, > Eric > > P.S.- Anyone who would like to improve the MPlayer situation please > contact me, I simply don't have enough time right now to find a recent > stable svn revision and roll our own distfile... > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
