Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes: > On 2016/03/17 21:04, Michael McConville wrote: >> It's only got fixing tweaks since it was imported in 1998, nothing >> depends on it, and (this is a good red flag for deletion candidates) it >> still has patches removing gets(3). The source files in the tarball are >> timestamped 1993-94 and the opening paragraph of the README is: >> >> > I found this in a zip file, the test suite missing, as well as the >> > Makefile. >> >> What seems to be the HOMEPAGE of the project (there isn't one in the >> Makefile) declares it "compatible with IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.1", and >> points users to IRIS dmedia tools if they want a "better quality >> implementation": >> >> http://structbio.vanderbilt.edu/comp/soft/freeware/mpegaudio.html >> >> I'm assuming no one is still using it? >> > > Is there anything else that can encode to MPEG layer 1 in the tree?
The gets->fgets patches are broken. I doubt anyone would actually use it after seeing the erratic interactive behavior; getting it to actually convert a wav file to mp1 took me three attempts. >From my point of view it can just go. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
