[paranoia-dev] Development for Solaris?

[Nikolaus J. Sucher]

Keep up the good work!! I also really want to see it on Solaris 7. I will be
patient...

Monty wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > > I'd really like to get cdparanoia running for Solaris 7.  I've a ton of users
> > > here at work that would like to rip and encode CDs (including myself) and have
> > > to use our Linux boxes for the purpose.
> > > Where might I find read-only CVS access to get the source and begin working on
> > > it, or see if it compiles?  Thanks.
>
> It does not compile and there are big gaping holes in the source base.  I'll
> be getting it into CVS regardless, but pIV has a great deal of work left to be
> done.
>
> > Since I am also using Solaris 7, I have tried to get the development code,
> > without success.  I would be very happy IF WE COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE
> > DEVELOPMENT of cdparanoia.
>
> I'm going to risk being unprofessional for a moment.
>
> I will kindly ask the poster to refrain from shouting.  pIV is not in the read
> only CVS yet because it takes *time* to put it there in a form that is useful
> to developers and flag it with large red letters that says "THIS IS UNFINISHED.
>  IT WILL NOT WORK" because I'll immediately start getting email complaining
> about posting broken code.  I'm already getting an average of four-five hours
> of sleep a night from being spread too thinly. I'm not withholding source out
> of spite.  I've simply not gotten to it because even giving code away takes
> time and I have none (right now).
>
> > I think that using SCSI CD-ROM drives for ripping should not be the big
> > problem.  The big problem for Solaris 7 is to write an ATAPI-driver or a
> > SCSI emulation like Linux.
>
> Hacking Paranoia III to run on Solaris is, in fact, reasonably easy but it
> turns the code into an #ifdef nightmare.  pIV is a nice, clean setup, but
> required rewriting things from the ground up.  I'm working as fast as I can,
> spread across paying work (so I can continue to eat) and the three open source
> projects for which I'm responsible.  As it is, I can barely even keep up with
> email.
>
> Monty
>
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