Re: audiofile problems.

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Michael Pruett <mpruett nyquist engr sgi com> writes:

> > If Dave and Jacob declare it Kosher I can put it in beta 2. However,
> > is it actually source and binary compatible? If not, we can't include
> > it whatever the soname is, and the soname should indeed be bumped if
> > bin compat was broken.
> 
> It is source and binary compatible.  And I do use the -version-info
> flag on libtool to indicate that the library has been revised.
> 
> One caveat:
> Someone made a change to the handling of unsigned integer audio data in
> GNOME CVS (without consulting me) back in version 0.1.7.  This change
> resulted in a bug.  Programs which depended on this bug (which didn't
> exist before 0.1.7 and which was fixed in 0.2.0) will be disappointed.
> But I'm not aware of any such programs.  Otherwise the features in the
> current version are a superset of those in previous (0.1.x) versions.
> 
> Many prominent free audio programs (Michael Krause's SoundTracker, Josh
> Green's Smurf, Conrad Parker's Sweep, Glame) recommend use of version
> 0.2.0 or better.
> 

In that case, I am happy with 0.2.1 for beta 2 pending Jacob and
Dave's blessing.

 - Maciej