[ogg-dev] OggPCM: support for little-endianness only?

Sampo Syreeni decoy at iki.fi
Wed Feb 13 17:53:16 PST 2008


On 2007-12-30, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:

> In any format that is to be used on both, it is always better to pick 
> one and stick with it.

Then recommend one single format. Nobody *has* to support all of the 
features present, yet it makes sense to *allow* common variances. Most 
of all, because:

> Unless you can guarantee that you're writing streams that are only 
> going to be passed within a single architecture, allowing both formats 
> is always worse.

...some people *are* able to guarantee that. Why hinder them?
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