<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jan 14, 2020, at 12:07, Scott Wheeler <<a href="mailto:scott@taglib.org" class="">scott@taglib.org</a>> wrote:<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">My general opinion is that TagLib does need bug fixes, but that it doesn't need a lot of new development.  The project is 15 years old and has a fixed scope, so I see it more as "mature" rather than "dead".  ;-)</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be great to see support for additional tagging schemas; CartChunk (aka AES46-2002, <a href="http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/search.cfm?docID=41" class="">http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/search.cfm?docID=41</a>) and Broadcast Wave File (<a href="https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3285.pdf" class="">https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3285.pdf</a>) being two that come immediately to mind. I know that that CartChunk support has been discussed here before (see for example <a href="https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2004-August/000021.html" class="">https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2004-August/000021.html</a>), but my understanding is that it has never happened due to the need to maintain a stable ABI within the larger KDE project.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this ABI compatibility requirement still operative? Would a PR that implements support for the two above tagging schemas be considered for inclusion in stock TagLib (perhaps as part of a new major version)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. |             Chief Developer             |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|                           |             Paravel Systems             |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|      The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.      |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|                                                                     |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|                                                  -- Abbie Hoffman   |</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">|---------------------------------------------------------------------|</span></div></div></body></html>