Hello everyone On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 22:56, Andrew O. Shadoura <[email protected]> wrote: > You can also drop libid3 as it is now and write a wrapper around some > better ID3 tagging library that has the same (or compatible) interface > as libid3. Also, I'd merge id3 and id3v2 into one package, or even > one binary, which would behave differently depending on its argv[0].
Well, here we are, several months later. I have since rewritten id3v2 to use taglib instead of libid3 and it seems to work reasonably well [1]. I have informed upstream about my work but haven't received any feedback so far. I thus assume that they are not particularly interested in maintaining a thing that now consists of mostly my code - I can't really blame them for that. I also contacted several debian package maintainers whose packages use libid3 and sent some patches along but so far without a whole lot of success either. I guess they have more pressing things to worry about. What this leaves me with, however, is an AFAICT working version of id3v2 with support for id3v2.4 tags and nobody using it. After re-reading this thread (and the last message in particular) I have now come up with a cunning plan (which would probably have been obvious from the very beginning to a greater mind): as I took over upstream development of id3 [2] when I adopted the package, I'm thinking of (ab)using that project for my id3v2 fork and replacing the debian id3 and id3v2 packages with this great new hopefully-working thing, probably calling the new package "id3" again. Once that is done, I intend to orphan libid3 to make it obvious to everyone who still uses it that they should seriously consider switching to something else instead. I realize that replacing a perfectly working little tool like id3 with my mostly untested id3v2 fork might not be the nicest thing to do, but at the moment it's the best solution I can come up with. Thus I was wondering if any of you have any comments on this. Reasonble idea? The most stupid thing you've heard in a while? Something in between? Any feedback would be welcome. [1] http://src.ott.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=id3v2;a=summary [2] http://id3.googlecode.com/ cheers -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ "You are not Grey Squirrel?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOk=tptpouvpekfvdwe67ygw8r0-l3mgmu5pzw_pq0mrvqk...@mail.gmail.com
