[Libburn] Libburn update

Derek Foreman manmower@signalmarketing.com
Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:45:49 -0600 (CST)


Hi

Been a while since the last libburn progress report, and there have been
some notable changes.

Xor's just finished moving our cvs over to freedesktop.org, and updated
our web page at icculus.org/burn to reflect the change.

He's also added some command line option parsing to the samples in the
test directory of the libburn cvs repository, and is working on an iso9660
filesystem generating library called, oddly enough, "libisofs" (also in
the libburn distribution)

Libburn no longer passes data around with file descriptors, we now have a
"data source" api that should be a lot more flexible, allowing for easy
integration with things like gnome VFS and the new isofs library.

There's still a long list of things left before libburn is ready for
general purpose use.  Right now I'm adding a data conversion layer that
will allow the application to have finer control over libburn's automatic
header and ecc generation.  SAO cue sheet generation is on the way too.

Also on the TODO list is repairing the ripping code, and adding a
"virtual" drive that will let a program access image files as if they were
normal CDs (both for reading and creating images)

I'm really aiming for an API freeze as soon as possible.

And, finally, libburn now has its own mailing list (this message is CC'd
there)
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libburn

So, please feel free to sign up and bash my API there, because it would
suck if the API sucked because no-one told me it sucked, mkay?

(I'll also try to update the doxygen generated API docs on icculus.org
more frequently.  :)