[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpflac - New directory

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:31:46PM +0400, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> Hello!
> ? ???, 05.10.2003, ? 18:22, Alex Beregszaszi ?????:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Directory /cvsroot/mplayer/main/libmpflac added to the repository
> > Remove this ASAP!!
> > Or I will remove the whole FLAC support!
> Ok.  I'll remove it.
> > 
> > Next time send patches FIRST and commit after NO objections..
> Check mail archives please. Message was sent at tuesday(30.09) and
>  nobody have said nothing! If you all are agains it, where you were at
>  the week?
> 
> BTW: libmpflac is a stream-decoder part of BIG (or even HUGE) library.
> It (more or less) same situation, as with libfaad. Suppose 'less',
> because flac isn't popular in movies :)

I tend to agree somewhat. Stock flac lib has massive bloat and idiotic
dependencies (libsndfile). If they can't release a clean simple
library, but instead a whole damn player misnamed as a library, then
it makes sense to import the small amount of useful code to mplayer
cvs rather than depending on their junk which probably has symbol
clashes at link time because of excessive globals (just a guess).

Rich