On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:39 PM, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, this is sad. cdparanoia, which could be considered a strong > opensource meatspace partner to FLAC (along with cdda2wav) > is also effectively dead. All three living on only in the ports trees of > various operating systems. Minor bugs and doc fixes are always > needed. What's worse is, when the heat turns up on dead projects, > instead of just stepping up or handing off in a competitive/proposal/worthy > yet time limited process, the authors emit some sort of lame 'Hey yeah, > new release coming' message in an attempt to maintain ownership, which > of course goes nowhere. It's really just a disservice to themselves and the > community. Sad indeed. Have people forgotten what opensource is all about? > There are plenty of people capable of doing these two. Certainly ripping. > Fork I > say. I love these projects, and their authors. So not as an affront to prior > authors, but for betterment of the projects, always.
did you read brian w's explanation of why FLAC appears "dead" ? the same thing really applies to cdparanoia, a program now more than 10 years old, maybe even 15. some things about ripping audio CDs just .... don't change. _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
