GTK+ client available

Nick Lamb (njl98r nospam at ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:40:33 +0100 (BST)

Well, I asked Rob to link this from the CD index site, but it doesn't look
like that's going to happen any time soon. So for those who spend some time
in X, and have GTK+ 1.2.x (such as Gnome users) there is a client available
from my pages at
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/

This client uses the plaintext get.pl request and SHA1 to fetch info from
CDindex directly into a little list window. It doesn't have many features
yet, but in the ideal world, so many CD players will add CDindex support
that I will never have to add any more features to my client :)

BTW If you have a big-endian machine which can run my client, PLEASE test
it on some known good CDs. I have no confirmation that it works except
on a plain Intel Linux machine. It should bail out safely if I've messed
up the SHA1 code, but I may have screwed up elsewhere.

I also have a command line client which uses Glib and a different SHA
algorithm to Rob's client, so that it doesn't need endian.h. Fortunately
I hear that Rob has been sent an autoconf patch which avoids the whole
endian.h issue for the existing client -- but if anyone wants this drop
me a line.