>I want to try and debug this, but it appears that I'm going to have 
>to learn a heck of a lot more about the nuts and bolts of Squeak 
>first.  Is the dll/so/(whatever macs use) compiled from the c source 
>or is it somehow translated to slang and compiled that way?  It 
>would seem the latter is the case, but it's hard to tell, having 
>only really used squeak for a few days.
>
>I'm thinking I'll first compile and test the latest libmpeg3 and see 
>if it can handle the tags.  If not, I'll see if I can work with the 
>guy at Heroine Virtual to get it patched.  If so, how difficult 
>would it be to update the Squeak plugin with the latest version of 
>libmpeg3?  Just trying to get an idea of what I'm in for.
>
>Thanks for all your help, John and everyone.

Well the mp3 source code is just plain old C code. It has a wrapper 
the plugin interface, which really just gets objects out of Squeaks 
OOPs space, and takes C objects and stuffs them back into Squeak's 
OOPs space. Since the code was build as a library all that was really 
done was to use SLANG plugin logic to build wrappers for each public 
interface in the libarary. Plus a smallish file changesForSqueak.c 
which contains various functions like memory allocation to make it 
viable on the macintosh/windows versus unix which was the original 
target platform.
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