Marcus Meissner <mar...@jet.franken.de> writes: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:07:29PM +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote: >> Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Juan Lang<juan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> All the more reason to use the existing libmpg123 instead of trying to >> >>> maintain our own version, IMO. >> >> >> >> Aric already explained that we can't: it doesn't exist on the Mac. >> > >> > Not to nitpick, but if that's the reason for bundling libmpg, there >> > are several other libraries we should bundle... >> >> It's not the reason, as you point out the Mac is lacking a lot of >> things. I believe the reason we copied it was that it wasn't widely >> available on Linux either, because of licensing issues. If it's now >> included in the major distros then we should certainly consider dynamic >> loading. > > At least on SUSE I have to patch it out due to license issues, so my builds > do not have mp3 support.
What issues? The mp3 patents? That's a different problem than the original licensing issues, though of course it is also a good argument for making it a dynamic dependency. -- Alexandre Julliard julli...@winehq.org
