With libcdio-pbatard now complete in terms of fixes and features, I am
in a position to push for the changes to be integrated into mainline at
last.
As previously indicated I have created a new pbatard-integration branch
dedicated where I will push a few commits at a time, with a copy of
those also being sent to the mailing list, and will wait for integration
before pushing some more.
While I was at it, you will see that I added a MSVC project for
cd-paranoia in -pbatard, mostly because I was observing a crash there
during testing, that was a lot easier to troubleshoot using MSVC. I have
also applied fixes for tests that I found problematic, so that they now
all work properly, including with MinGW (the only one that fails on
MinGW now is rock-ridge, which is purely due to symbolic links not being
available for extracted data on Window).
The way I'd like to proceed, which is also how I am planning to submit
patches, is to have the configure.ac fixes and extract.c sample
integrated first, since not having them will hinder testing, then get
the cumbersome but minor stuff out of the way (source headers
improvements), then ensure that we have a set of tests that work on all
platforms (there are a few things to address there) before finally going
to the main course with core file patches.
The 5 patches from this first salvo should be fairly independent and
will stop short of the testing fixes.
Regards,
/Pete
PS: On a side note I'm quite pleased to have stuck with libcdio in my
app and not switch to using 7-zip or something else, as tests shown that
my application is about twice as fast on UDF extraction as the
competition [1]. Of course, this is in great part due to the default
Windows buffering mechanisms, since I haven't optimized anything with
regards to extraction, and everything is very much read one block at
time, but it also indicates that the libcdio code is not slowing us down
in any way. Good job!
[1] http://rufus.akeo.ie/ -> "(1) Speed comparison between Rufus and
other applications"
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