Re: [emms-help] 4.2 release tasks: emms-print-metadata install

[Yoni Rabkin]

> On 25.10.2016 16:52, Rasmus wrote:
>> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> OK, so there is a good reason to move to C++ with this, which would
>>> otherwise seem like overkill to me.
>>>
>>> Since we would want to test it a bit before packing it up into a release
>>> it can hopefully go out with the release after this one (4.3, which is
>>> scheduled for May 2017).
>>
>> That should be fine.  I don't know what the status is of this ATM.
>
> Hello and apologies for not responding in a timely manner. For some
> weird reason I had "dropped" EMMS folder in my own mail setup, so
> these messages didn't catch me until now.
>
> The patch is ok.  It's a really simple piece of C++98 so it ought to
> work with almost any compiler. I haven't submitted the patch earlier
> because the docs were missing.  But I have updated the texinfo and the
> man page, so I'll post the patch Real Soon Now.
>
> Some relevant copy-paste from correspondence with Rasmus last February:
>
> "Btw, there is also a (feature-wise) limited Perl implementation in
> emms/src.  emms.texi does not mention anything about it.  The program
> uses Audio::Scan which seems to be yet another C-based parser for many
> open media formats.  I think we should either drop it or at least
> document it."

Can I please have the latest and greatest version of your C++
emms-print-metadata patch to install?

I want people to be able to try it out well in advance of 4.3.

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