Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2
Hi
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 00:44, Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello Stefan,
> As someone who has been in your situation many times (I look after more
> orphans than an animal shelter) you do need to think about the longer
> term. I took over psmisc in 2000, for example.
>
> I saw some suggested you make the library a basic shim to the currently
> developed one and that's probably a good compromise if it doesn't look
> like too much work. The ideal would be for programs to use a supported
> library. I would say that the library change would be about the same
> effort as the command-line one but there's more ongoing support.
>
> It's the ongoing work that you need to consider. Also I wonder how
> many of the other programs know the id3 library state. I was actually
> looking for an id3 tagger for a program of mine and wasn't aware.
Thanks, good point. I guess I should contact and inform the
maintainers of other packages that use libid3 and see what they think,
i.e. ask whether they think switching to another library would be
possible without too much work.
cheers
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Stefan Ott
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