[vorbis-dev] Mac BSD license question

Kevin Marks kmarks at apple.com
Thu Jul 5 11:20:14 PDT 2001



At 2:46 pm +0200 4/7/01, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>  > > Is there a compelling reason that the mac libraries are not available?
>>
>>  No, just lack of developer interest.
>
>Libraries ain't very useful for Mac...  Using a precompiled library is as
>difficult as compiling it yourself anyway.

Eh? All the OS stuff is supplied as precompiled libraries. I grant 
you it is fiddly between 9 and X as there are different library 
formats, but linking with a library is nothing mystical.

>And there's full QuickTime support coming up, so almost no Mac program
>will need to fiddle around with libraries and stuff anymore :-)

that is of course a better answer...

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