On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > All this fetching strangeness was only needed before because ffmpeg-devel > fetched from Subversion, and this repository used Subversion externals (in > particular for libswscale), and those externals were not pegged to a specific > revision, meaning that even if we asked for revision X of ffmpeg, we would > always get revision HEAD of swscale, not the revision of swscale that had > been current as of revision X of ffmpeg, and this frequently caused breakage > as libswscale's HEAD advanced in ways which were incompatible with old > versions of ffmpeg. > > Now that git is being used instead of svn, is any of this special code still > necessary? Or can the port simplify to using the normal "fetch.type git" > mechanism? I am not familiar with git; how is libswscale now being handled in > this git repository?
libswscale exists in the main repository now. I didn't realize that fetch.type git was in the released MacPorts. I'm updating it now. Thanks, Jeremy _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
