[TEAR-Devel] I am alive, probably.

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Hello everybody,

I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong, it hasn't been a whole year =
since the last email.

To those of you who just dont care anymore, unsubscribe here http://lists.s=
ourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tear-devel. To the rest of you: big news, I f=
inally found enough time to do some work.

The release is at http://www.devilducky.org/tear/ . this is still a "non-st=
able" release even though it works perfectly for everything I've tested it =
against. Ogg, lame, and cdparanoia are completly working. cdda2wav seems to=
 work and bldeen and gogo should work at least as far as the id3 tags, I ha=
ven't tested that yet. The release is basically the 0.9 stuff we were worki=
ng on with a lot of options taken out. Taking out things dont really want o=
r need allows the program to run more inteliggently, as I'm sure no one her=
e will contest. The forks for the programs now happen for both the ripper a=
nd the encoder. This serves two uses: it should work wonders on SMP machine=
s, and it allows tear to always know the pid of it's children. I also used =
this to have a clean shut down in the case of a ctrl-c or otther signal.

I added the much requested support for ENCEXTRA to send more arguments to t=
he encoder. Having this will allow power users to play with settings most p=
eople wouldn't use and we wouldn't want to support. Supporting every settin=
g would just make things too confusing for developing and using.

The only parts of the program that I know need working on are vbr support, =
playlist support, and the CDDB fill in stuff. I can do the vbr and cddb stu=
ff, but would prefer no to do the playlist. Every attempt of mine ends up w=
eird. For reasons I will explain in an upcoming paragraph these changes wil=
l be in 1.0_rc2.

As always suggestions and bug fixes are welcome.

I still need to do almost of the documenting. I just slapped an old manfile=
 in the tarball and did rudimentary editing of the other docs. I will work =
on these soon, unless someone else would like to be extremly helpful and lo=
ved by me.=20

Packaging... oh what to say about packaging... Meikel if you're still inter=
ested, you can do a .deb version of this. I no longer have access to a redh=
at machine or even a machine that has rpm, so I need someone to do rpms for=
 me, Mark? I can help if you dont know what to do. Any other distributions =
would also be appreciated of course. I have already made a gentoo ebuild. A=
nd do the fact that I was on #gentoo playing with it, it has already been s=
ubmitted to be included in portage, which is why we can just make any chang=
es for the next release.

Oh, another note. The Makefile that is included in the tarball right now is=
 no good. Wait a little bit and I will send another via email. I will aos u=
pdate that tarball at that time.

I will be making this an official release on soureforge, but not announcing=
 it on freshmeat.

Thanks,
Greg

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