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audacity package

  1. Bug #602934
  2. Comment #108

Comment 108 for bug 602934

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In , Vaughan-audacityteam (vaughan-audacityteam) wrote :

(In reply to comment #92)

from Gale Andrews <email address hidden> 2011-04-01 14:17:13 BST ---
> The only point about backwards-compatibility as I see it is to save people
> coming from 1.3.6 and 1.3.7 (which had our earliest version of FFmpeg) having
> to get the latest FFmpeg when they upgrade Audacity. Even without this patch
> those 1.3.6/1.3.7 users would have to upgrade to the current FFmpeg available
> at Buanzo's site, so we are not making things any worse for them. And if this
> patch was in 1.3.13 or 1.3.14, users upgrading from 1.3.8+ would be able to
> carry on with their older FFmpeg 0.5 without having to update to our FFmpeg 0.6
> when we release it, so it's better for them. But to answer the question, no the
> 1.3.6/1.3.7 FFmpeg (the October 2008 versions here):
> http://lrn.mooo.com/other/gsoc/ffmpegcity/ffmpeg/distributable/

I think those are not too much to ask of beta users, so I am -1 on backward
compatibility.