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Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2



On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:29, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
>
>> In case you are thinking of dropping libid3, the following are the
>> reverse deps and reverse build-deps that would need to be ported or
>> dropped. You might want to talk to their maintainers and upstreams:
>
> [15 packages]
> But this is an argument to keep it.  Porting 15 packages to something else
> would be quite a bit of work.

True

> However, what if you made not the command line tool but the library a thin
> wrapper over a competing one?  That would require porting just once.

Someone also suggested this on IRC last night and I actually like the
idea, thanks!

cheers
-- 
Stefan Ott
http://www.ott.net/

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