On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Ray Kohler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Conrad Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 1 March 2010 12:07, Ray Kohler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Would a patch to ogg123 for using scandir(3) and alphasort(3) instead
>>> of opendir(3) and readdir(3) in playlist_append_directory() be
>>> accepted, or are those not sufficiently portable? On Linux,
>>> _SVID_SOURCE or _BSD_SOURCE is required to use them. This shouldn't be
>>> hard to implement and I'd like very much to have directories added to
>>> the playlist in sorted order.
>>
>> could you add a configure check for those functions, and if not
>> present then fall back to the existing behaviour?
>
> That's certainly possible to do. If it turns out that no platform we
> care about is missing them, then I'd like to avoid it, as it would
> make for a bigger patch. I'm willing to do it anyway if it's the right
> thing to do, and there's somebody interested in actually taking such a
> patch.
Yes, we'd take such a patch. _Especially_ if you do the extra build
system legwork to establish portability. :-) Now is good timing too,
I intend to release a new ogg123 this month.
Monty
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