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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Sunday 29 July 2007 22:14:37 Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2007 20:49:57 Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> > On Friday 27 July 2007 20:17:30 Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > > Do we know which other spells don't like flac-1.2.0 ?
> >
> > I can find out which flac-dependant spells on my audio box succeed with
> > the new version.
>
> Of the five flac-dependent spells I had installed, libsndfile and
> flac-tools failed, and hydrogen joined them because libsndfile was broken
> by the flac upgrade.
>
> Flac-tools has a new version out for flac 1.2.0, so an upgrade will fix
> that. But libsndfile still needs 1.1.2, and _many_ audio apps use it.
> Breaking libsndfile will break lots more, one example being hydrogen which
> couldn't even get past ./configure.
>
> Adding a flac2 spell for 1.2.0 would be easiest, as we wouldn't need to
> muck around with many spells' DEPENDS files. But then again, flac2 as a
> name is misleading and will lead to even more confusion later on (just look
> at the naming mess we now have with the libsigc++ spells). If we fork a
> flac-old spell for 1.1.2 it'll be more initial work but a cleaner end
> solution.
>
> What do you think?

what about forceably disabling flac support in libsndfile for the moment?  
otherwise I would go for flac-old and when we find something that needs the 
old version, modify the spell


-- 
Regards, Treeve

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