Re: audiofile??

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Laszlo PETER <Laszlo Peter ireland sun com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Someone recently renamed audiofile to audiofile-historical in CVS.
> Well, it may be historical but it is needed to build esound and libgnome,
> so can we have it back, please?
> (Or am I missing something?)

See the following message that I Cc'ed to gnome-hackers a few days ago
with the brilliant subject line 'cvs broken pipe signal'.

The "historical" doesn't refer to the package, but to the directory
in CVS ... the only reason to keep it around at all is old CVS
history.

Regards,
                                        Owen

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Michael Pruett <mpruett engr sgi com> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:59:38AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Did you migrate the sources with history to oss.sgi.com? (THat
> > is, did you get someone to give you a tarball of the CVS 
> > directory?) or did you just reimport?
> > 
> > If the former, we should just remove the audiofile directory from
> > GNOME cvs.
> > 
> > If the latter, the old audiofile directory has interesting
> > historical information in it and we should preserve it as
> > "audiofile-historical" or something either on GNOME cvs or
> > on oss.sgi.com.
> > 
> > But CVS is not a source distribution mechanism, and we never put
> > things in GNOME CVS just to make it easy for people to get them -
> > from experience, people will start checking things into such
> > modules, not realizing there are updates upstream, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately I just reimported.
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to rename GNOME CVS's audiofile module
> to audiofile-historical to preserve the revision information.

I've moved audiofile to audiofile-historical now. It might be good to
add a file to audiofile-historical describing where the sources went
and how to get the latest version.