Skype 4.0

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:11:03 -0400
Rich Neese <r.neese at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/15/2012 5:08 PM, Robert Simmons wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> >> Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available. Is there any possibility of
> >> getting it ported to FreeBSD? The latest version in ports is only
> >> 2.x.
> > I don't have time to do it right at the moment, but since this is
> > pre-compiled binary software, updating the port yourself and sending
> > the patches in with a PR would not be a complex task.  I'm confident
> > that you could do it.  Start here:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/quick-porting.html
> >
> > The URL for downloading the bugger is here:
> > http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-4.0.0.7.tar.bz2
> >
> > Good luck, and thanks in advance!

It also needs to run, which it doesn't for lack of linux emulation
things and some linux- ports.

> I just wish skype would get off their buts and make a bsd version. time
> to break code and make a opensource version

0 chances. As a market we're not significant at all for them.
Even Linux isn't, not really.

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