Re: [flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

2013-01-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Brian Willoughby wrote: > Why would you release a new version of FLAC if the binary did not > change (on a given platform)? The version number is attached to the source code not the binary. BSD distros, Linux distros and things like MacPorts have scripts that rely on the md5sum of a given vers

Re: [flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

2013-01-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Martijn van Beurden wrote: > Well, the changelog in the docs directory has been used previously by > Josh to keep track of all changes. It seems the code in cvs had some > bugs fixed and libFLAC got an new function > (FLAC__format_blocksize_is_subset()) so that should be enough to warrant > a

Re: [flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

2013-01-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Martijn van Beurden wrote: > Hi all, > > Lots of bugs and support requests in the sourceforge tracker are related > to the FLAC frontend, which is bundled with FLAC for Windows with the > installer. However, I couldn't find it in git. I really thought the FLAC > frontend was part of the projec

Re: [flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

2013-01-22 Thread Martijn van Beurden
Sorry, I wasn't specific enough: there's a GUI bundled with the Windows installer as well, which is called 'FLAC Frontend'. It is used a lot but it has been broken for years. (just take a look at the Sourceforge bug section) Anyway, I've already started coding a replacement with MSVC 2005. On

Re: [flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

2013-01-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Martijn van Beurden wrote: > Sorry, I wasn't specific enough: there's a GUI bundled with the Windows > installer as well, which is called 'FLAC Frontend'. It is used a lot but > it has been broken for years. (just take a look at the Sourceforge bug > section) If it was never officially part of

Re: [flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

2013-01-22 Thread Martijn van Beurden
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 :-). Erik It depends on your definition of 'being officially part of'. This GUI was developed by a 3rd party but has al

Re: [flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

2013-01-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
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 comma

Re: [flac-dev] History of FLAC Frontend?

2013-01-22 Thread Martijn van Beurden
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 sou