From: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
To: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
Cc: sox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Bundled GSM library
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:24:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xlfiluupd.fsf@mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200811135329.GC70131@www.stare.cz> (Jan Stary's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:53:29 +0200")
Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> writes:
> On Aug 04 12:58:59, mans@mansr.com wrote:
>> SoX includes a local copy of libgsm.
>
> Yes; as opposed to most of the other external formats.
I guess it's because the library is relatively small and wasn't widely
available as a system package back then.
>> There is also an option to build
>> against an externally provided libgsm. Unsurprisingly, the local copy
>> is quite old and presumably full of bugs.
>
> AFAICS, it's 1992 code, last touched by Rob in 2008.
>
>> Since all major Linux distributions already package libgsm, I'd like to
>> simply delete our copy and make gsm support optional.
>
> Please do.
>
>> It is rather obscure, after all.
>
> I remamber using it many years ago when some phones (ancient by today)
> used it as the default audio format for recordings.
>
>> Any objections?
>
> Please do kill it.
That's one vote in favour of ditching it. Good enough for me.
--
Måns Rullgård
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-04 11:58 Bundled GSM library Måns Rullgård
2020-08-05 19:17 ` Wolfgang Stoeggl via SoX-devel
2020-08-06 9:10 ` Måns Rullgård
2020-08-11 13:53 ` Jan Stary
2020-08-11 14:24 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
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