First the necessary news. Thomas Schmitt has decided to breath life into libcdio by undertaking the task of beefing up the long-neglected MMC command access in libcdio. Also also he seems intent on adding writing ability to libcdio with perhaps the goal of supporting a back-end for possibly a GPL cd-record. (The "o" part of "libcdio" was always a misnomer since output was never originally contemplated.)
So beware - there are possibly some serious changes which means possibly some serious API changes and with that is the possibility of breakage. But if that is so, we've got through this before, we'll get through with it again. As best as I can tell libcdio was born of the last decade. I am not sure exactly when, but perhaps 2002 or maybe even 2001. It was derived from code in Herbert Valiero Riedel's vcdimager. Although hvr and my name is put at the top of many files, in my mind it's really you all that have made libcdio what it is and last as long as it has. So thank you! And in closing I would like to copy what is in the THANKS file. If I've misrepresented things, got things wrong, or have not given enough credit where it is due, contact me and let's fix that. But again and most important - THANKS! On to 2010! - - - Geoff Bailey FreeBSD debugging & testing Burkhard Plaum <[email protected]> some GNU/Linux and CD-Text patches Carlo Bramini fixes for Mingw+MSYS and DLL support Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò patches to FreeBSD and making Gentoo-friendly Frantisek Dvorak <valtri at atlas.cz>: bug reports and miscellaneous fixes Heiner <h.eichmann at gmx.de> FreeBSD CAM support and FreeBSD debugging & testing Ian MacIntosh Sun-related things. Justin B. Ruggles <jruggle at earthlink.net> SCSI MMC discmode determination via Read TOC. Justin F. Hallett <thesin at southofheaven.org> Fink packaging and matters OSX KO Myung-Hun <[email protected]> OS2 Driver Kris Verbeeck <airborne at advalvas.be>: CDDB library support from libcddb http://libcddb.sourceforge.net Gentoo ebuild-file Manfred Tremmel <Manfred.Tremmel at iiv.de>: RPM spec file and inclusion of libcdio into http://packman.links2linux.de/ Michael Kukat <michael at unixiron.org>, for the hints in extractnrg.pl Nicolas Boullis <nboullis at debian.org> Build issues, library symbol versioning, Debian packaging and issues Patrick Guimond CD-Extra audio data boundaries Peter Hartley Cross-compiling to mingw32 Peter J. Creath removal of libpopt, paranoia documentation, some bug fixes to cd-* programs and the paranoia lib Steven M. Schultz <sms at 2BSD.COM> All things BSDI and the use of a really fabulous Darwin G5 box. Svend S. Sorensen <ssorensen at fastmail.fm> cdrdao TOC-reading and CDRWin CUE parsing code based on cuetools http://cuetools.sourceforge.net/ xboxmediacenter team (www.xboxmediacenter.de) X-Box detection and XDF filesystem things Thomas Schmitt Recording and retrieval of SCSI sense reply. Write/burning interface. MMC bug fixes Daniel Schwarz log-summary option in cd-paranoia. Robert William Fuller get_track_pregap_lba, get_track_pregap_lsn. Section on "CD-DA pregap" in libcdio manual.
