[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] FreeBSD DVD Fix

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 07 August 2004 at 06:45, rcooley wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:48:46 +0900
> Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 
> > I've meet too many bsd users who just use gpl or gnu code until they
> > hit a bug. Then the workaround it or use something else.
> 
> Well, BSD users are rather accustomed to being neglected/ignored,
> espcially with all the Linux-specific software out there.  I think it's
> just a conditioned response at this point.
> 
> > Or take MPlayer as an example, most bsds have huge ports patches,
> > although MPlayer is supposed to compile out of the box. Noone of them
> > were send upstream until we asked explicitly for them.
> 
> This is quite interesting...  First of all, NONE of the FreeBSD patches
> I sent were applied.  That should tell you something.

Yes, it does. Maybe they were all *crap*? Have you considered that?

> Also, the only request I saw was AFTER the OpenBSD patches were already
> sent...  I wouldn't have even thought to send in the patches, if not for
> the request, because they are all easily available to anyone via CVS
> (or CVS-Web).

Oh, and MPlayer devs should check there every now and then and see if
there's perhaps something worth applying, yes? No. If you have a patch,
you send it to the author, rather than expect the author go looking for
it.

> Besides, there is a closed e-mail policy on -dev, is there not?  So you
> are forcing all the ports maintainers to subscribe to this list, just so
> they can send you their patches, which are publicly available for anyone
> that looks.

You could always subscribe and set e-mail preferences not to send you
any e-mails, and now there's bugzilla.

Regards,
Rathann

PS. Sorry about this rant.

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