[vorbis-dev] Library issues (BOUNCE vorbis-dev@xiph.org: Non-member submission from [rob@emusic.com]) (fwd)

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On 26 Jul, Michael Smith wrote:

> There isn't any particular reason for this. If nobody objects, it would
> seem entirely reasonable to change it to libvorbisfile.a - leave this
> floating for a couple of days, if we don't hear anything against this, I'd
> say go ahead and change it (or bug someone else to - I don't know if you
> have CVS access)

I'd like to see this get done, but I don't have CVS write access. Any
volunteers?

> I imagine people will eventually. I would strongly suggest that people NOT
> distribute libvorbis in shared library form until 1.0, however. The API is
> stable, but I would expect binary incompatibilities to creep in (I think
> some needed additions to the comment interface, for example, will break
> binary compatibility, though not source compatibility)

If I want to do a pure source dist of FreeAmp with Vorbis support I need
to include the entire source for Vorbis as well. Hmmm. I may very well
just insist that Vorbis be installed in a pre-determined place rather
than duplicating the source.

- --ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye -- robert at moon.eorbit.net  http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert

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