speex vs speex-devel

Michael Dickens michaelld at macports.org
Fri Mar 31 14:00:23 UTC 2017


Guessing it's legacy cruft. Seems like for deprecated projects, there
should be just a "final release" port with patches added here and there
for compatibility; "devel" is really in my opinion for actively
in-development projects. That's what I do with qt4-mac, which amazingly
still mostly builds on most MacOS X / macOS systems. My $0.02 worth ...
- MLD

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017, at 08:05 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
> The speec port has no maintainer so I am asking here.
> Why do we have both 'speex' and 'speex-devel'?
> They consist of exactly the same files.
> 
> Similarly for speexDSP and speexDSP-devel.
> 
> Xiph.org itself has deprecated Speex in 2013.


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