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ChangeLog


2008/02/12	- libao 0.8.6 -> 0.8.8
		- libvorbis 1.1.2 -> 1.2.0
		- Updated Slackware notes for 12.0
		- libtheora (Ogg Theora) 1.0alpha7 -> 1.0beta2
2007 Jun 29	- Updated Slackware notes for 11.0
		- Removed gawk, sed, and grep links (now at the top)
		- Updated note that Speex 1.2beta2 is latest
		- Fixed the Speex download URL
		- Moved the codecs part before installing
		  vorbis-tools
		- Added patch that will let you build ogg123
		  against FLAC 1.1.3 and 1.1.4
		- Note about removing a line that will let you
		  build in curl support with recent versions of curl
Sep 12, 2006	- Updated download URLs for python bindings
		  (pyao, pyogg, pyvorbis)
		- Changed home page URL for python bindings
		  from
		  http://www.andrewchatham.com/pyogg/
		  to
		  http://ekyo.nerim.net/software/pyogg/
		- Updated note about python bindings and gcc versions
		- libtheora 1.0alpha5 -> alpha7
		- Clean docs from /usr/local/doc too, in addition to
		  /usr/local/share/doc
Dec 8, 2005	- Changed polypaudio to link to the new howto
		- Only run removepkg if it exists
		- libogg 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3
		- libvorbis 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2
Oct 19, 2005	- Updated Slackware notes for 10.2
		- Make sure files in libogg's source directory are writeable
		  by the user that owns them
		- libvorbis 1.0.1 -> 1.1.1, added md5sum and sha1sum
		  verification
		- Make sure files in libvorbis' source directory that are
		  created as root are owned by your non-root user after
		  'make install' is run (so you can delete the source later)
		- vorbis-tools 1.0.1 -> 1.1.1, added md5sum and sha1sum
		  verification
		- Changed download URL of the python bindings from
		  http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/unix/py/ to
		  http://www.andrewchatham.com/pyogg/download/
		- pyao 0.81 -> 0.82
		- pyvorbis 1.3 -> 1.4
		- Ogg Theora 1.0alpha4 -> 1.0alpha5, updated prerequisites,
		  added run of 'make check'
		- Clean up old /usr/local/share/doc/libtheora-* doc directories
		- Clean up old /usr/local/share/doc/speex-* doc directories
Jun 21, 2005	- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- Rearranged options to shut up the new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Added md5sum and sha1sum verification for libtheora,
		  changed from tar.gz to tar.bz2
		- Changed md5 and sha1sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Speex 1.0.4 -> 1.0.5, added md5sum verification
Feb 21, 2005	- Updated Slack notes for 10.1
		- libao 0.8.5 -> 0.8.6
		- Added audiofile and polypaudio as prereqs for libao
		- Added md5sum and sha1sum verification of tarball
Dec 23, 2004	- Changed "X" link to "XFree86 or X.org"
		- libogg 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2
		- Added md5sum verification of the tarball for libogg
		- libtheora 1.0alpha3 -> 1.0alpha4
		- Added run of ldconfig for libtheora
Sep 24, 2004	- Slackware 10.0 replaced the oggutils package with
		  seperate libao, libogg, libvorbis, and vorbis-tools packages,
		  so I added running of removepkg to each section and updated
		  the notes for Slackware 10.0
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
		- Fixed a typo in removing /usr/doc/libvorbis-*
		- Updated pyao note about gcc
		- ogg theora 1.0alpha2 -> 1.0alpha3
		- speex 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4
Mar 27, 2004	- libao 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
		- Removed note about alsa 1.x trouble with libao, it's been
		  fixed
Mar 4, 2004	- libogg 1.0 -> 1.1
		- libvorbis 1.0 -> 1.0.1
		- vorbis-tools 1.0 -> 1.0.1
		- pyao 0.8 -> 0.81
		- pyogg 1.0 -> 1.3
		- pyvorbis 1.0 -> 1.3
Feb 10, 2004	- Added note about building libao with --disable-alsa09
		- Added note about building vorbis-tools where make might
		  fail if curl is linked with libssl
		- speex 1.0.2 -> 1.0.3
		- Updated note about gcc 3.x building the python stuff
Oct 21, 2003	- libao 0.8.3 -> 0.8.4
		- Added link to libao's homepage, now using the download
		  URL from that site
		- Added cleanup of old libao.*, libogg.*, libvorbis.*,
		  libvorbisfile.*, libvorbisenc.* library files
		- speex (codec) 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2
Sep 4, 2003	- First entry

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