[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs mpg321, (...)

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 08.03.2010 um 18:25 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>  
>> wrote:
>
>>> your description says:
>>>
>>> "NAME=mpg321 - A Free replacement for mpg123"
>>>
>>> Errr... but mpg123 is a sourceforge project. its already free.
>>> ....
>> I try to be faithful to the upstream descriptions if possible.
>
>
> I can certainly understand that.
> There are, unfortunately, quite a few cases where the "upstream" is
> terrible at documenting its software :-}
>
> Why did you bother packaging this, exactly?
> Its not even as though mpg123 is an orphaned or abandoned project. it
> was just updated in feb of this year.
>
> In contrast, mpg321 is at a "zero" major rev, and has not been updated
> in 9 months.

I packaged that maybe 10 years ago myself because it used lower  
resources
than mpg123: "Unlike mpg123 it does all MP3 decoding with only fixed- 
point
math by using the mad MPEG audio decoder library." On an UltraSparc I
with 143 MHz that made quite some difference!


Best regards

   -- Dago