Undeprecating libsidplay and fbg

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 04/06/2013 09:20 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:54:45 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> just a quick headsup that I'm undeprecating libsidplay and fbg.
>>
>> libsidplay, review request:
>> 949165 - Review Request: libsidplay - SID chip music module playing library
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949165
>>
>> Rationale for undeprecating: .sid files are cool and libsidplay is needed
>> to (re-)add support for them to gstreamer using packages.
>
> Please reconsider. Just because libsidplay v2 is not "free" (due to the
> Microsoft Basic and Kernal ROM images it includes), that should not mean that
> the ancient libsidplay v1 lives on forever. It simply does not support current
> SID files formats, such as PSID v2NG and RSID, and cannot support them.

This is not only about free-ness this is also about some multimedia players
(notably the gstreamer framework) not having libsidplay v2 support.

Regards,

Hans