RFC: sharing CD access code from libwm.

[Alexander Kern]

Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 04:53 schrieb Shaheed:
> Hi all,
Hello,
>
> I would like to propose moving
>
> 	kdemultimedia/kscd/libwm
>
> to
>
> 	kdemultimedia/libkcddb/libwm
>
What?
> so that:
>
> 1. I can fix the fact that kaudiocreator depends on the copy of libwm which
> "belongs" to kscd. The change would mean that both applications would
> depend on the libkcddb library consistently.
In this case kdemultimedia/libwm is the best place!
>
> 2. The CDDB protocol used by both kscd and kaudiocreator does not contain
> the track length information used by both applications. Both applications
> use the libwm code to access the length information directly from the CD,
> and then combine it with the CDDB info. I'd like to make that code shared.
> (In fact the documented intent seems to be do incorporate the length in
> libkcddb in the KDE4 release when BC can be broken).
libwm and libkcddb are orthogonal.. Please don't mix they.

> Any thoughts or comments?
>
> Thanks, Shaheed
Regards, Alex Kern