Re: adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:52 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I will work on this soon, hopefully tomorrow. I have to learn
autotools practically from scratch, so this could give me a little
trouble.