Marcus Meissner marcus@jet.franken.de writes:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:07:29PM +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Juan Langjuan.lang@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.