flac dev - Sep 2014 - patch for win_utf8_io.c: vsnprintf_s vs. MinGW

Declan Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:53:12PM +1000, mle+la at mega-nerd.com wrote:
> 
> > I thought Micorsoft had recently stopped supporting WinXP. 
> 
> Apparently they changed their mind, due to a large number of users not
> upgrading. Security updates, including a monthly malware detection tool,
> are still released for XP on Windows Update.
<sigh>
> Does FLAC still support all the Windows and Mac and *nix GUI frontends?
> I mostly use abcde, on the command line.
You don't understand, the frontends support FLAC, not the other way round
:-).

Erik
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:08:29PM +1000, mle+la at mega-nerd.com wrote:
> > Does FLAC still support all the Windows and Mac and *nix GUI
frontends?
> > I mostly use abcde, on the command line.
> 
> You don't understand, the frontends support FLAC, not the other way
round :-).
I was using the userland definition of "support", where it's a
2-way
thing. Minor changes in how the command-line encoder writes to stdout
could be enough to break the frontends that use FLAC.EXE instead of the
library, for example.
That should be the frontend developer's problem, but the end user will
only see "FLAC not working", and they will complain loudly about it on
their chosen Web forum.

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Declan Kelly wrote:
> I was using the userland definition of "support", where it's
a 2-way
> thing. Minor changes in how the command-line encoder writes to stdout
> could be enough to break the frontends that use FLAC.EXE instead of the
> library, for example.
> That should be the frontend developer's problem, but the end user will
> only see "FLAC not working", and they will complain loudly about
it on
> their chosen Web forum.
Changes to the flac executable command line behaviour are minor and
I would think exclusively additional functionality.

About a year ago we had the 1.3.0 release, the first official release
in over 5 years and as far as I am aware no third party front ends
were broken.

I suspect the same will be true of the next release.

Erik
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