[flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

[Martijn van Beurden]

On 22-01-13 10:02, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> If it was never officially part of the FLAC project and FLAC source 
> code then bugs against it shouldn't be in FLAC's bug tracker :-). Erik

It depends on your definition of 'being officially part of'. This GUI 
was developed by a 3rd party but has always been bundled with the 
official FLAC tools, made available for download via the sourceforge 
files section and is advertised in the flac download section as being 
"official".

I think bundling a GUI for Windows users is still desirable, because 
they don't have nice command line utilities like *nix users do. FLAC 
isn't added to a path, so even when using a proper command line, the 
flac command line utility can't be used properly. /Usable/ 'official' 
tools for encoding, decoding and testing FLAC files for this (fairly 
large) group of users are necessary just like *nix-users have the 
official command line tools.
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