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Hi everyone.
With all due respect, how can I unsubscribe from this mailing list? I haven't used SoX for at least a year, maybe two, and I keep getting these multiple emails a day. Thanks. > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:21:47 +0200 > From: hans@xxxxxxxx > To: sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: sox vs libmagic > > On Sep 20 11:32:15, mans@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Jan Stary <hans@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > >> > Would anyone miss the libmagic functionality > > >> > if it was removed from SoX? > > > > > > On Sep 18 10:27:00, peterparker@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >> A few other posters have commented to either enable or disable at > > >> compilation time. I am using sox a lot, but have never compiled it > > >> myself and would be happy if I hadn't to in the future to either enable > > >> or disable libmagic, whatever my preference would be. > > > > > > On Sep 19 15:51:53, mans@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >> Until someone can point to a specific problem the feature is causing, > > >> I see absolutely no reason for removing it. > > > > > > I think it goes the other way: there needs to be a specific reason to > > > have it in there. > > > > It's already there, presumably because it was useful to someone. > > That's exactly what I am asking: is anyone using it? > How exactly are you using it? When have you last used it? > > > I'm against removing features merely because one person lacks the > > imagination to see their utility. If the situation were reversed, > > someone sending a patch to add this feature, I'd be asking for examples > > of when it is needed. Change without reason is always misguided. > > Let's stop with the generalizations and "persons without imagination", OK? > I know what libmagic does. I just don't think that it is much useful in SoX. > How many misnamed or unrecognizable audio files have you encountered recently? > Zero, that's how many. And how did libmagic in SoX help you with that? > You can't tell, because you haven't used it. Tell me it's not true. > > I am proposing to remove libmagic from SoX, because > > 1. It is of questionable utility. Next time you encounter > a missnamed or unrecognizable audio file, just run file(1) on it. > That's what file(1) is for. > > 2. I haven't inspected the code closely, but it also seems that > for the libmagic functionality to even happen, you need to call SoX > with an explicit --magic. If that's the case, tell me: > have you ever done that? No. So you are not using it anyway. > > 4. It would be one less dependency, and less code. > > So far the only argument for it to stay is that it's already there. > IMHO that's not a reason for it to be there. Or, to paraphrase: > code without reason is always misguided. > > Of course I can build my SoX --without-magic (and I do). > I just believe that it would be beneficial to SoX as > a piece of software to drop it entirely. It would be > smaller without really losing anything. > > Jan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Sox-users mailing list > Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users |
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