[Flac-dev] rpms

[Josh Coalson]

--- Miles Egan <miles at caddr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:04:49AM -0700, Josh Coalson wrote:
> > --- Miles Egan <miles at caddr.com> wrote:
> > > Are there rpms for flac available?
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any official maintainers but supposedly
> > the gstreamer guys (http://gstreamer.sf.net) have a spec
> > file for it.  I am going to look into it in the next
> > couple of days but when 1.0 comes out I'm sure RPMs will
> > pop up pretty quickly.
> 
> Ok.  I'd be happy to help put rpms together if you need them.  I've
> got a spec
> file I'm using for my own installs.

That would be great.  If you have a place to host them I
can link to them on the download page, otherwise I guess
we could use the sourceforge release mechanism.

> Thanks for flac, by the way.  I'm very impressed with it.  I recently
> decided to
> switch to lossless compression and was initially discouraged to find
> only
> proprietary tools.  I was very happy to stumble across flac.  I think
> this
> project deserves a bit more publicity.  I follow open-source
> development and
> popular audio compression tools pretty closely and I hadn't heard of
> it until
> last week.

Yeah, I haven't really tried to bring a lot of attention
to it until the first release, but then again, I'm not
sure how to go about doing it either.

Josh


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