[vlc-devel] [RFC] Requesting backport of audiotoolbox_midi to VLC 3.0

[Thomas Guillem]

OK for me.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017, at 19:49, Sean McGovern wrote:
> Hi Marvin and list members,
> 
> I know I was the one to originally raise a fuss about this one. I was
> mostly concerned with that we had been told at VDD17 that a feature
> freeze was occurring very shortly thereafter, and that since then a
> number of new features were still being sent in to the ML.
> 
> As you mentioned, this piece is at least compartmentalized(sp?) to one
> platform. If the general consensus among the rest of you is OK, I am
> willing to drop my concern for this one. It should not however be
> construed as an OK from me for any other feature patchsets to be ported
> back.
> 
> As a side note, I did check this morning and there are still some bugs
> sitting unassigned on Trac preventing go-ahead on 3.0 and would politely
> request that if anyone has cycle they give priority to those.
> 
> You guys are awesome,
> 
> -- Sean McG.
> 
>   Original Message  
> From: epirat07 at gmail.com
> Sent: December 4, 2017 1:36 PM
> To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
> Reply-to: vlc-devel at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc-devel] [RFC] Requesting backport of audiotoolbox_midi to
> VLC 3.0
> 
> Good evening fellow VLC devs,
> 
> I wanted to request an exception to the code freeze of 3.0 for the 
> backport
> of the recently added audiotoolbox_midi decoder module for macOS (and 
> iOS).
> 
> This only affects macOS (and iOS), so the impact of backporting this 
> should
> be quite small and it allows us to drop the FluidLite library for midi 
> decoding,
> on macOS.
> 
> The AudioToolbox midi decoder has the benefit that it can work without 
> the user
> specifying any SoundFont, as it will use a default soundbank that is 
> shipped with
> macOS.
> 
> Additionally FluidLite currently crashes with some (possibly broken) 
> SoundFonts.
> 
> Please let me know your opinion,
> thanks in advance.
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