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

[Petteri Hintsanen]

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."

regards,
Petteri