On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:23 PM Sean Wallitsch < sean.wallit...@dreamworks.com> wrote:
> My apologies for that oversight. My understanding is that many of the > methods present in aifc depend heavily on audioop for reading and writing. > But are people using audioop directly? This shifts whether we still publicly deprecate auidoop and make it an implementation detail of aifc versus a free-standing module whose API we need to continue to support. -Brett > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:35 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 22, 2019, 12:14 Sean Wallitsch <sean.wallit...@dreamworks.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear python-dev, >>> >>> I'm writing to provide some feedback on PEP-594, primarily the proposed >>> deprecation and reason for the removal of the aifc and audioop libraries. >>> >>> The post production film industry continues to make heavy use of AIFFs, >>> as completely uncompressed audio is preferred. Support for the consumer >>> alternatives (ALAC, FLAC) is virtually non-existent, with no movement >>> towards adoption of those formats. Even Apple's own professional editing >>> tool Final Cut Pro does not support ALAC. Many of the applications also >>> support WAV, but not all. >>> >>> Removal of this module from the standard library is complicated by the >>> fact that a large number of film industry facilities have extremely limited >>> internet access for security reasons. This does not make it impossible to >>> get a library from pypi, but speaking to those devs has made me aware of >>> what a painful process that is for them. They have benefited greatly from >>> aifc's inclusion in the standard library. >>> >> >> That's really helpful data, thank you! >> >> Is audioop also used? You mention both aifc and audioop at the beginning >> and end of your message, but all the details in the middle focus on just >> aifc. >> >> -n >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org >
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