ports/88059: [port update] net/mercury

[Gabor Kovesdan]

>Number:         88059
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [port update] net/mercury
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 26 20:50:13 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gabor Kovesdan
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p17 amd64
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD server.t-hosting.hu 5.3-RELEASE-p17 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p17 #0: Mon Jul 4 20:23:15 CEST 2005 root at server.t-hosting.hu:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/FREEBSD amd64

>Description:

The pkg-descr is out-dated, Mercury has some new features that isn't documented there.
For example, it is supported now to use a webcam, not only receive videos, etc.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- mercury.diff begins here ---
diff -ur /usr/ports/net/mercury/pkg-descr ../mercury/pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/net/mercury/pkg-descr	Sun May  1 16:36:22 2005
+++ ../mercury/pkg-descr	Wed Oct 26 22:33:59 2005
@@ -6,9 +6,20 @@
     * Add a display picture (also know as avatar)
     * Send files through the MSN server (for people with a firewall etc..) or
 	direct
+    * Away messages, if you are online, busy or whatever you can always have
+	 an away message.
     * Play games (Tic Tac Toe and Connect4 only at the moment)
-    * Look through the webcam of your friends (webcam receiving only)
+    * Watch the webcam of your friends (Mercury auto-saves these sessions on
+	 the disk and can convert them to Quicktime movies, click here for more
+	 info)
+    * Allow other people to watch your webcam (= video only)
+    * Audio and Video conference is implemented (both sending and receiving)
+	but still a beta feature
+
+Mercury also has some MSN7 specific features, and some additional features that
+your normal messenger doesn't have, for example: port forwarding for faster file
+transfer, handling of more accounts, having different MSN names for each contact,
+etc.
 
-But Mercury has many extra functions that your normal messenger doesn't have.
 
 WWW: http://www.mercury.to/
--- mercury.diff ends here ---


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