Christoph Terasa wrote: > When you say "FOSS/libre" you mean "GNU/Linux"?
No specifically I mean Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, any other *BSD as well as things like Haiku. > I can imagine FOSS > environments which don't rely on the GNU build system. I can imagine them too, but I actually cannot name any. If you know of any I'd love to be enlightened. > Also isn't making > FLAC build equally nice and easy on all target platforms a worthwhile > aim? FLAC is FOSS/libre and FOSS/libre will always be best supported, mainly because I can download the OS for free (as in no money) and install it in a free VM (like kvm or Qemu). As soon as its a "you have to pay us money" OS, its immediately harder for me to support. > This will make contributions from Mac OS or Windows users more > likely, ultimately improving the project as a whole (e.g. the windows > Unicode issue). Well first off, lets be honest. Supporting Mac is trivially easy in comparison to support Windows. From the point of view of a library and command line program like flac, Mac is pretty much POSIX compliant. The Mac command line tools are not totally compatible with the GNU versions but there's usually a work around. For example this patch: https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=0432b9649071814ee462743528ad4f2bcc68408c As maintainer of FLAC, I have never rejected any sane patch from a Windows or Mac developer. I will push back until the patch is right (as I am currently doing with Ben Allison's MSVC patches) but that makes the code better and should eventually get the code into flac. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev