[Libburn] Question about libisofs (Was: burn_version patch)

Andreas Schik aheppel at web.de
Thu Feb 9 01:32:44 PST 2006


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On 2006-02-09 10:00:45 +0100 Joe Neeman <neeman at webone.com.au> wrote:

>>> It's possible that libisofs will be used in an application that libburn is 
>>> not.  Should there be a function there anyway?
>> 
>> Are there such cases? When?
>> I am using libisofs in an app to simply create an ISO image. At least for 
>> the
>> burn_source struct and for burn_source_free() I need libburn. Or do I
>> misunderstand something here?
> 
> Libisofs never calls any functions from libburn. It requires the header file 
> libburn.h to define struct burn_source but that's it. You can do without 
> libburn entirely if you work around burn_source_free by just doing
> source->free_data(source);
> free(source);
> because libisofs never keeps any internal references to the burn-source it 
> returns (so you don't need to worry about the reference counting).
Cool. Thanks. I didn't know that.

Andreas

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