Port request: Songbird

[Michael Johnson]

On 3/12/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/12/07, Luchezar Petkov <luchezar.petkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, guys.
> > I'd like to request a port for the Songbird media player. I know that
> > the FreeBSD GNOME team is trying not only to port GNOME to FreeBSD,
> > but to make FreeBSD better for the desktop. And Songbird is one of the
> > best open source desktop media players out there for sure. As I am
> > just a desktop user, I can't help with porting, but if you need
> > testers - I'm in.
>
> You can expect linux-songbird once we get our linux
> compat updated to fedora core 5. As for a native
> version, you'll probably have to beg ahze, he's the
> Mozilla-man :-)
>

I looked at it once or twice.. It's doable, but there's a good bit
hard-coded Linuxisms in songbirds Makefiles that will have to be
patched. I've seen a patch on the mailing list once for FreeBSD
but it's outdated now.

Michael