> On Feb 7, 2015, at 05:51, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> But I am! Please have a look at the logs I attached to the trac ticket...
>> 
>> Jeremy wasn't, and that's the topic of this mail, about supposedly us
>> insulting him, because we closed his bugreport that he kept reopening,
>> while the whole time, he was hacking your buildsystem.
> 
> In defense of Jeremy, I think he was. I took over the Portfile that had his 
> signature, so I'm presuming that's what he used too.
> And it does a bootstrap before invoking configure.

I don't know where things stand today, but a couple years ago when I tried to 
help out, nobody was maintaining the VLC port in MacPorts, and it had aged 
quite a bit.  The VLC build system was an utter hack, and the Portfile that was 
managing it was equally repugnant.  I spent quite a bit of time getting us up 
to a modern version of VLC and also created the VLC-devel port to track 
upstream development versions in hopes of finding issues *before* they released 
them.

I got things into a decent state for us and reported bugs upstream to help them 
improve things for other distributions.  After multiple disagreements, I 
decided to just give up trying to help upstream.


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