Re: Is cdindex being developed at all

Stephen van Egmond (svanegmond nospam at home.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:28:23 EDT

>I took a look at the CVS archives, and found that the last commit was
>August 16th. Is the cdindex being developed at all? I was thinking
>of adding some support for it in Xmms, but I don't feel like writing
>an XML parser and everything to interpret the results. Are there any
>ongoing work on the cdi_lib?

I've been waiting for the cdi library proposal to float out, but it
hasn't happened. I've been doing some interim coding on my own time
but not very aggressively because the project appears to be dying.

People seem to be flouting the CDDB license in their apps - there isn't
a single one for the BeOS that spams a logo on the screen, for
instance. I figure this is making cdindex wane even more.

I'll put in a few hours on an API and BeOS implementation this weekend,
and post about it here.

Is libxml C? Is it properly easy to use?

/Steve