MPlayer Port Suggestion

[Eric Cronin]

On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 20, 2008, at 17:38, David Evans wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind or not, but port  
>> ffmpeg is
>> an example of a port that uses svn to fetch a specific revision  
>> from a
>> repository (because that's the only way they do it).
>
> Well ffmpeg does it a bit of a weird convoluted way, because it  
> wants to pin down the version of an external definition in ffmpeg's  
> repository and they haven't done so themselves in the repository  
> like they should.
>
> The simpler way to fetch source from Subversion is to just use the  
> keywords MacPorts gives you for that purpose. See the pure-devel  
> port for an example of that.

Is using svn.url + svn.tag a recommended approach now?  I seem to  
remember it being discouraged and that a local distfile should be made  
instead, but maybe that was changed when we dropped support for  
versions of OS X without a system svn client?

Thanks,
Eric