TagLib 1.5 Release

Jeff Mitchell kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com
Tue Feb 26 04:44:50 CET 2008


Scott Wheeler wrote:
> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Plus we now had to add a bunch of configure checks in against Taglib 
>> 1.5 because some of the formats are now supported directly in Taglib 
>> so we had to remove our support to avoid duplicate symbols if Taglib 
>> 1.5 was on the system.
>
> To be fair, I mentioned this to you and a couple of the Amarok guys a 
> few months back, before the last KDE 3 based release and bothered 
> about it.  Amarok really shouldn't be using the TagLib namespace in 
> its extensions because it makes the chance for symbol clashes 
> particularly high.
Ahh, I don't honestly remember that, but it is true, it does raise the 
potential.

But I do stand by my remarks...if the Fedora lawyers look at the issue 
and decide that it is acceptable to have those formats as a compile-time 
dependency disabled by default, I think that would probably be good 
enough for most other distros, and it would help with Taglib packaging 
immensely.

--Jeff


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