Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:50:10 +0200 From: Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> Cc: KDE FreeBSD List <kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org>, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] kdemultimedia stomps on graphics/mpeg-lib's .so files Message-ID: <200207081750.15606.lauri@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020708100032.41026G-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020708100032.41026G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 July 2002 16.01, Robert Watson wrote: > Sounds like the KDE people should probably just rename their library to > kdejpeg. :-) Surely this pops up for people on other platforms too? How > is it resolved in Linux? Ok, I've been doing some investigation, and come up with the following: The mpeg-lib port has no maintainer (well it's ports@) The library that the mpeg-lib port installs is abandonware - the last relea= se=20 was in August 1999 and the author states on the web page cited in pkg-descr= =20 that it is unmaintained, and he has no interest in keeping it updated. (see= =20 http://starship.python.net/~gward/mpeglib/ ) The only application we've managed to come up with that actually uses it to= day=20 is Gimp (however, the gimp-devel port also uses it.) The KDE mpeglib is actively maintained, (see http://mpeglib.sourceforge.net= ),=20 and has been part of KDE since just after KDE 1.1.2 was released. However,= =20 we had it disabled here on FreeBSD until 3.0 was released, because it is=20 threaded, and until this time didn't work very well. This probably explain= s=20 why we didn't hit this problem here earlier. It has, however, occurred on= =20 Linux for over 2 years, so I'm investigating some of the other solutions. It's not possible to rename the KDE mpeglib in KDE CVS, because doing so wo= uld=20 break our commitment to providing binary compatibility for all 3.x versions= =20 of KDE. We could rename it there for KDE 4 (which is a very long time away= )=20 if everyone is amenable. We could possibly rename it here on FreeBSD, but that would cause binary=20 incompatibility, and would place us back in the difficult situation we had= =20 before, where third party applications potentially require hackery to get=20 them to compile on FreeBSD. =20 Given that we've done a lot of work for 3.x to make FreeBSD a development=20 friendly KDE platform (something it hasn't really been before now), and=20 because I don't want to be responsible for breaking binary compatibility, I= 'm=20 personally not very happy about renaming our version.=20 Regards, =2D --=20 Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9KbSy/gUyA7PWnacRAvmmAKCZUoEHEJI0dNF9PVfRLe58A4NoNwCeP9sP MhNWRvesPn4PZmD3w1mIOwQ=3D =3D43hb =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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