It seems that it was causing issues with certain perl setups (such as
the one on issue #549). It also turns out that it was not behaving correctly
(not all constants were being promoted to big nums as they should), so we
use explicit objects to derive the constants.
There were also precedence issues. I wonder if this even worked right to
begin with.
The 'double' path (8-byte floats) is untested, as I couldn't easily find
a file with such a field.
Closes#549.
file2string.pl and vdpau_functions.pl are direct ports.
matroska.py was reimplemented as the Parse::Matroska module in CPAN,
and matroska.pl was made a client of Parse::Matroska.
A copy of Parse::Matroska is included in TOOLS/lib, and matroska.pl
looks there first when trying to load the module.
osxbundle.py was not ported since I have no means to verify it.
Python is always available on OSX though, so there is no harm in
removing the check for it on configure.
Diogo Franco (Kovensky)
wm4