[Libcdio-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Integration of libcdio-pbatard changes

[Pete Batard]

With libcdio-pbatard now complete in terms of fixes and features, I am 
in a position to push for the changes to be integrated into mainline at 
last.

As previously indicated I have created a new pbatard-integration branch 
dedicated where I will push a few commits at a time, with a copy of 
those also being sent to the mailing list, and will wait for integration 
before pushing some more.

While I was at it, you will see that I added a MSVC project for 
cd-paranoia in -pbatard, mostly because I was observing a crash there 
during testing, that was a lot easier to troubleshoot using MSVC. I have 
also applied fixes for tests that I found problematic, so that they now 
all work properly, including with MinGW (the only one that fails on 
MinGW now is rock-ridge, which is purely due to symbolic links not being 
available for extracted data on Window).

The way I'd like to proceed, which is also how I am planning to submit 
patches, is to have the configure.ac fixes and extract.c sample 
integrated first, since not having them will hinder testing, then get 
the cumbersome but minor stuff out of the way (source headers 
improvements), then ensure that we have a set of tests that work on all 
platforms (there are a few things to address there) before finally going 
to the main course with core file patches.

The 5 patches from this first salvo should be fairly independent and 
will stop short of the testing fixes.

Regards,

/Pete

PS: On a side note I'm quite pleased to have stuck with libcdio in my 
app and not switch to using 7-zip or something else, as tests shown that 
my application is about twice as fast on UDF extraction as the 
competition [1]. Of course, this is in great part due to the default 
Windows buffering mechanisms, since I haven't optimized anything with 
regards to extraction, and everything is very much read one block at 
time, but it also indicates that the libcdio code is not slowing us down 
in any way. Good job!

[1] http://rufus.akeo.ie/ -> "(1) Speed comparison between Rufus and 
other applications"