[Ffmpeg-devel] firewalls and svn access

David Capel d.capel
Fri Sep 1 17:54:22 CEST 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:51 -0400, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> 
> > Since I'm already providing mplayer snapshots:
> >
> > http://www.haque.net/software/ffmpeg/svn-snapshots/
> >
> > Enjoy.
> >
> > --
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > Mohammad A. Haque                      http://www.haque.net/
> >                                         mhaque at haque.net
> >
> >   "Alcohol and calculus don't mix.
> >    Don't drink and derive." --Unknown
> >
> > =====================================================================
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:32 AM, David Capel wrote:
> >
> >> Dear repository maintainers,
> >>
> >> Several users on the ffmpeg-user list have noted that they are  
> >> unable to
> >> access the ffmpeg (or mplayer) svn repository via the standard svn  
> >> port
> >> (3690) due to their institutional or corporate firewall.
> >>
> >> Request to sys admins regarding opening "unusual" ports tend to go
> >> via /dev/null. Since ffmpeg repository snapshots are no longer
> >> available, this part of the ffmpeg/mplayer user base is stuck out  
> >> in the
> >> cold.
> >>
> >> Please consider configuring the svn server to accept requests on an
> >> additional, standard port (443?). Otherwise, perhaps the nightly
> >> snapshots could be reinstated?
> >>
> >> Hopefully,
> >> D.
> 
> 
> And sorry about top posting

Nice one, Mohammad. That's very gracious of you. I'm still hoping that
the maintainers will consider fixing this problem at source though. 

D.



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