Lingon Portfile Update: OT

[Altoine Barker]

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...
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