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

[Bernd Ernesti]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:32:49AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
[..]
> ???  Well, here's a set of FreeBSD patches for mplayer 0.99.5:
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/mplayer/files/
> 
> Some of those patches are to get it to build and install
> properly in our environment based on how our ports system
> works.
> 
> The next time the port is updated to a newer version of mplayer,
> I'll resend you the same link.

Such a thing is kind of useless.
How would you expect that a mplayer developer knows which patch
if port only and would break a non port build?

It's up to you to feed back changes and not expect someone else to
pull them. Like it is documented in the mplayer docs.

And http links tend to vanish from time to time, so you can't verify
after some time that the change which was done, was the same which
was intended to be integrated. Not to mention that someone could
make new changes and at one point it breaks something and just at
that time someone looks at that page, get the patch and integrate it.

I can only hope that you are not the freebsd port maintainer for mplayer.

Bernd