On 05.07.2015 10:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> +# Remove after 06-28-2016.
>> +variant mp3 description {Legacy compatibility variant for MP3 support via 
>> mpg123. Will be removed soon.} {
>> +    notes-append "
>> +                   You have enabled the legacy mp3 variant.
>> +                   Upstream ceased using mpg123 in version 0.8.0 and 
>> removed support
>> +                   completely in 0.9.0.
>> +                   Decoding and playback of MP3 content is still available 
>> via
>> +                   ffmpeg, so no action is needed on your side.
>> +                 "
>>  }
> 
> If no action is needed on the user's part to continue to get mp3 support, 
> then there is no reason not to remove the variant immediately. Keeping the 
> variant only serves to confuse the user by printing a pointless message, and 
> causes the user to have a non-default set of variants, meaning if there were 
> binaries of this port, the user wouldn't be able to get them until they 
> manually deselected this variant.

Hum, okay.

I only know the policy of keeping any variant to be removed around as a legacy
variant that does nothing for a year to provide a better upgrade path.

Also, if I just removed the mp3 variant, I feared users might panic and think
that MP3 playback is unsupported now (which is obviously not the case.)

Are you sure that's not breaking the previously mentioned policy?



Mihai

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