Re: [coaster-devel] coaster project and freebsd

[Sean Harshbarger <harshy dersoldat org>]

Damian wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It has been widely known now that the coaster project has switched its
> backend from libburn to nautilus-burn. To us freebsd users this is
> wonderful news as libburn has quite a few portability issues into
> freebsd. But the major concern is that this switch is only temporary and
> later leaves future versions of coaster rendered useless on any non
> Linux platform. I was wondering if you'd taken into consideration this
> issue, or if you planned on developing both versions of the application
> (unlikely). Such a switch back to libburn puts a great obstacle on the
> freebsd gnome desktop platform on freebsd and any other *nix which
> successfully ported gnome to its OS. There is already an unofficial port
> of coaster for freebsd using nautilus-burn, but the maintainers are
> weary of submitting it to the official ports system if in the near
> future it will no longer be supported. Can you offer any feedback
> regarding this situation? Thanks for your time.
>
> Damian
>
>
>
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This has been forwarded to the offical coaster-devel-list gnome org!

We are possibly going to support both backends, but the news on the wire 
is that nautilus-cd-burn is going to switch to libburn. Since we are 
100% behind the libburn guys, we will be switching back as soon as a few 
items are cleaned up, and that could be within a month or two. It is 
better off for freebsd to work with the libburn guys to help make it 
work on BSD systems.

-Sean
(Coaster Project Manager)