Re: State of the Coaster

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> I have 5 weeks to hit my release for version 0.1.0. I plan to have a
> pre-release out 2 weeks before that.

That's great.

> Whats has to happen is I have to write the backend code now! With
> libburn being in a almost usable/ready state, this issue is not hard. I
> only have to decide how I want to do it. There is talk about a gnome lib
> based off libburn, and I may go into that come 0.1.0 and let people
> know. Just be forewarned that backend code needs to be separate from the
> GUI. This also includes the preferences. The GUI is in a decent state,
> and is usable. The hardest part is the the gnome-vfs to libburn
> interface.

I have looked at the HACKING and TODO files and I still don't see how 
someone else can help since you only tell the big picture.

Is there anything more elaborated so I can look at it?

> Compile stuff is as follows. While coaster is in cvs, there will be time
> that either libburn or coaster itself will not compile. I will be aware
> of these and will have it fixed in a timely manner. I try to make sure

I supose that you are refering to the "libcdburn" module when you talk 
of libburn, I tried compiling it but it does not build with gcc-2.95. 
You should keep portability in mind.

I was unable to build coaster (dependency problem) nor coasterarchitect 
(dies at configure time).

I finally found libburn on the -devel archives (!) but it didn't worked:
cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.icculus.org rejected access 
to /cvs/cvsroot for user anonymous

I have only seen the definitions on the web page that seem to come from 
libburn.h.

So well, if you *really* want help, it should be easier to setup the 
whole thing.


One last issue I have is copyright of the code. While the libcdburn 
contains lots of copy and paste code from cdrdao, some copyright notices 
have been removed (ie. CdrDriver.cc). Doing copy and paste code from the 
c++ dao library and then commenting lots of lines to make it compile 
doesn't look right. I supose that you have permission to remove those 
copyright notices from Andreas Mueller.

Also, if libcdburn is using that lots of code from cdrdao, why don't you 
asked on the mailing list to cooperate? Free Software is all about 
cooperation.


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