How to get Helix MP3 Files! - Page 1
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author: ali_asadzadeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2016, 04:23:21 pm
content: HiIt's crazy how we should get the open source files some times! Here is the link for Helix MP3 decoder, the question is how to get the damn source files!https://www.helixcommunity.org/projects/datatype/mp3decDo you have any idea?

author: bktemp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2016, 04:36:40 pm
content: Quote from: ali_asadzadeh on June 03, 2016, 04:23:21 pmUse google.There are many projects using the MP3 decoder. Here is one:https://github.com/derkling/adplayer/tree/master/HELIX

author: ali_asadzadeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 04, 2016, 12:23:24 pm
content: Thanks,But I wanted to download the latest files from their site! how should I do that?

author: mikerj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 04, 2016, 01:06:09 pm
content: Quote from: ali_asadzadeh on June 04, 2016, 12:23:24 pmHave you tried using CVS as shown on the bottom of the page?Quote

author: ali_asadzadeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2016, 05:08:02 am
content: I can't find the CSV and also if it's there I do not know how to use it.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2016, 03:25:52 pm
content: Do you mind doing a bit more Googling? The server is cvs.helixcommunity.org and if you don't know what CVS is then now would be a good time to learn.

author: janoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2016, 10:45:29 pm
content: Quote from: amyk on June 05, 2016, 03:25:52 pmI think a metashould be that someone is actuallystillusing CVS in this day and age ... It was a pretty terrible version control system even back then.

author: ali_asadzadeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2016, 05:41:11 am
content: Quotewhen you try to reach this URL cvs.helixcommunity.org it will be directed to this pagehttps://www.helixcommunity.org/projects/cvs/and it says HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 10:40:49 am
content: Quote from: janoc on June 05, 2016, 10:45:29 pmWithout being rude, who are you to say what does and does not work for someone? If it meets your use case, CVS is perfectly serviceable. Why would you toss years of familiarity and stability just because some new kids reckon it's not fashionable anymore if it does what you need it to do?

author: janoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 07, 2016, 10:36:21 pm
content: Quote from: BradC on June 07, 2016, 10:40:49 amWell, thanks for the "new kid" compliment. It is good knowing that someone with 20 years of sw development experience and having to deal with various version control systems on a daily basis is still considered too young to be taken seriously.CVS was perfectly serviceable in the 90s, when your other options were either RCS, SCCS or something like Microsoft Visual Source Safe (eeew!). Since then there was at least Subversion (started in 2000 or so) which was a direct replacement for CVS, fixing the worst problems with it. There is even a direct migration path from CVS to it that preserves history and everything (I have converted several repositories myself). I guess you have never had to fix a screwed up CVS repo, like when a commit or merge failed half-way or an RCS file got corrupted - CVS repository operations are not atomic, CVS is very much just a bunch of hackish utilities on top of RCS per-file versioning.More recently there have been other system like Darcs, Bazaar, Mercurial, Bitkeeper and Git, with probably Git ending up most popular among the free options.CVS is not something I would call stable by any means, except for the codebase stability (aka its development is pretty much dead - last release was 8 years ago).

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2016, 12:39:33 pm
content: Well, then contact them by email or any other form and ask them to fix the reference.Quote from: ali_asadzadeh on June 06, 2016, 05:41:11 am

author: Fungus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2016, 02:03:21 pm
content: Quote from: bitwelder on June 08, 2016, 12:39:33 pmWhile you're there you could ask them to provide a simple zip file(or something else that doesn't require a couple of hours of software installation to get access to whatever it is they're peddling)