Re: [Libcdio-devel] libcdio 0.78 release soon?

[R. Bernstein]

Burkhard Plaum writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > R. Bernstein wrote:
 > > I have some unexpected free time right now, and I'd like to release
 > > what we have in libcdio to clear out some old pending changes.
 > > 
 > > Here's what we currently have in NEWS
 > > 
 > > - add mmc-tool
 > > - add mmc-close-tray
 > > - libudf: can now read (extract) file data, at least for ICB strategy 
 > >           type 4.
 > > - libcdio is starting to get updated for UTF-8 support. Strings,
 > >   which are guaranteed to be in UTF-8, are returned as a new type
 > >   cdio_utf8_t, which is typedef'd to char.
 > > 
 > > Anything else? As usual, I'll take dead silence as overwhelming
 > > support for making a release soon. 
 > 
 > Looks ok.

Good. Thanks for looking over.
 > 
 > What I noticed is that cdio_eject_media() doesn't always work (so I disabled
 > my eject-buttons for gmerlin again). 

Details would be useful. 
-  What OS, 
-  What kind of CD-ROM, 
-  Capabilities reported by the CD-ROM drive

(I think cd-info gives this)

-  What conditions might occur that cause failure
-  Whether there was some other command that would have succeeded 
-  Whether there was an error condition reported

 > After researching a bit, I found, that
 > *reliable* cdrom ejecting seems to be far from trivial. 

which may be why the current cdio_eject_media currently isn't
trivial. But what specific research suggests that this is far from
trivial. It might give a clue as to what needs to be done.

 > Are there any plans
 > to improve this?

I wasn't planning on doing anything here. But then I hope libcdio
isn't just about what work I put into it. ;-)

 > 
 > Burkhard