On 22-01-13 10:02, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:> If it was never officially part of the FLAC project and FLAC source > code then bugs against it shouldn't be in FLAC's bug tracker :-). ErikIt depends on your definition of 'being officially part of'. This GUI was developed by a 3rd party but has always been bundled with the official FLAC tools, made available for download via the sourceforge files section and is advertised in the flac download section as being "official". I think bundling a GUI for Windows users is still desirable, because they don't have nice command line utilities like *nix users do. FLAC isn't added to a path, so even when using a proper command line, the flac command line utility can't be used properly. /Usable/ 'official' tools for encoding, decoding and testing FLAC files for this (fairly large) group of users are necessary just like *nix-users have the official command line tools. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20130122/5737f22c/attachment.htm
Martijn van Beurden wrote:> It depends on your definition of 'being officially part of'.My definition : In the FLAC source tree and compiles on/for most platforms FLAC compiles on/for.> I think bundling a GUI for Windows users is still desirable, because > they don't have nice command line utilities like *nix users do.I disagree that it needs to be bundled with FLAC, but agree with it being desirable. Even if this FLAC GUI is cross platform I don't think it should be part of the FLAC source code tree. It should be developed in a separate source repository even if that repository is hosted on Xiph. Also happy to have a link from the FLAC web page to the GUI program. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/
On 22-01-13 10:57, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:> I disagree that it needs to be bundled with FLAC, but agree with it > being desirable. Even if this FLAC GUI is cross platform I don't think > it should be part of the FLAC source code tree.That certainly makes sense. I think I'll create a new sourceforge project for this to keep it separated.