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




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