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

[Diego Biurrun]

rcooley writes:
> 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.

It's a vicious circle and you are going to be at the loosing end of
it.  You have to break out of it if you want to move the BSDs along,
at least IMHO.

> > 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.

You should know that patches take some time to get applied here, but
they are all either accepted or rejected eventually.  Please be a bit
more patient.

> 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).

I once looked for them but could not find them.  Maybe FreeBSD users
can find it in a snap, but I am not a FreeBSD user and I quickly got
fed up with trying to support an OS I don't use.

> 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 can subscribe with the nomail option to be able to post and as
explained above they may be publicly available but not necessary easy
to find.  Besides I don't see why we should bother to go hunting for
(portability) patches.  I consider it good form to send all patches I
create upstream.

> In other words, MPlayer, as an example, doesn't prove your point at all.

Sure it does.  We care about portability and apply all acceptable
portability patches that are sent to us.  We do not go hunting for
them in (random) places, though.

Diego