TagLib 1.6 RC1

[Rex Dieter]

Lukáš Lalinský wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Michael Schwendt<mschwendt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:11:26 -0400, Jeff wrote:
>>
>>> Lukáš Lalinský wrote:
>>> >> How much does the ASF/MP4 support differ from taglib-extras ?
>>> >
>>> > taglib-extras is mostly a copy of post-1.5 code from taglib trunk (ie,
>>> > the ASF and MP4 classes are identical).
>>>
>>> Yes...those formats that are shared between the two are identical and
>>> have regularly been synced (except for any tiny changes necessary for
>>> compilation). Once distributions package 1.6, taglib-extras will have
>>> another release that drops those formats.
>>
>> Do you encourage packagers to enable the _optional_ (!) ASF/WMA and MP4
>> format support?
> 
> I don't encourage or discourage it. From technical point of view they
> are fine. You might be concerned about patent issues, but I'm sure you
> have worse code in your distribution (and most likely even the same
> code, either with Amarok1 or taglib-extras). Nice situation is for
> example:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=taglib-devel&m=120767061907191&w=2
> 
> which says Fedora would rather not distribute the ASF code and yet there
> is:

legal had a change of heart, fwiw,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=taglib-extras

-- Rex