transKode

[Colin Guthrie]

Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote:
> El Miércoles 27 Febrero 2008, Mark Kretschmann escribió:
>> On 2/27/08, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Sergio Pistone
>>>
>>>  <sergio_pistone at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>>  > Hi, my name is Sergio Pistone, and I'm the author of transKode, one of
>>>  > the scripts that can be used to transcode file to audio devices (at
>>>  > least in the 1.4.x branch, I don't know if things will work the same
>>>  > way for the 2.x release).
>>>
>>>  Really it shouldn't be your job to package it. I agree with you that
>>>  you shouldn't make binaries of it. Thats the distros job. We could
>>>  help you get in contact with them.
>> It being a binary is really the main problem. Back in the day when I
> No, it isn't. It simply should be a static binary, and that's all.

For what arch? i586, i686, x86_64, MMX extensions, CMOV support, PPC,
Sparc, ARM, Windows EXE, OSX binary etc?

Binaries are evil when thinking about this kind of stuff. It's all well
and good when you live in a windows 32 bit bubble but in the real world
where people often run linux (and thus Amarok) on their toasters and
dead badgers then binaries can and, as is clearly evident, do cause
headaches.

Col