[vorbis-dev] Macintosh support (again)

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:41:53AM -0700, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> > 
> > *I* knew this.  I brought this issue up as soon as the change was 
> > made.  However, most developers won't skim the mailing list.  They'll 
> > just say "Oh, the build is broken, screw it."
> 
> Most people will be getting mainline right now, and this isn't a problem
> there afaik.  postbeta2 has issues, but that's the way a branch is
> supposed to be :)
> 
> Mac developers should be happy now.  I'll get to the win32 ones, and
> once that's done, i'll even document the build process.  There's only so
> much time in the day folks :)
> 
> > In case you didn't know, I was the one who did this for MacOS.
> 
> Are you ever going to write a little GUI encoder and/or a small player
> app?  We get LOTS of requests for vorbis on the mac.

Just write a quick little HyperCard app. Easy, simple, and will likely run
on just about anything in existence. Not to mention you can make it look
"professional" relatively easily. Failing that, Director is nice :)

Kenneth

> > I still *strongly* recommend the approach I suggest in my previous 
> > mail.  It will Just Work on all platforms without weird tricks and 
> > without requiring additional steps in the build process for some 
> > platforms.
> 
> Not to mention your approach was clean, adding a small extra file.  It's
> commited, so lets get back to our normal complaints about tuning instead
> of picking on the build :)
> 
> jack.
> 
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