[6565] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xmcd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett David Rosen)
Wed Nov 12 10:09:46 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: consultdev@MIT.EDU, bug-audio@MIT.EDU, jered@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[6487] in SIPB bug reports"
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:09:27 EST
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:26:06 -0500 (EST) Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes
|>
|> Hello consultdev and bug-audio people.
|>
|> I've done some work on xmcd 2.2 to make it work better in the Athena
|> environment. Specifically, I modified source code, installation
|> scripts, and configuration files to give all of them the concept of an
|> arch-dependant configuration directory. (This way, things like the
|> site to use for cddb can be defined in a shared directory, and things
|> like the device to use for the cd player can be defined separately for
|> each platform.) The work I've done is in /mit/sipb/src/xmcd-2.2. I
|> made a test installation in a private locker and it seems to work
|> pretty well. (It works on at least one Linux system for which
|> /mit/audio/bin/xmcd does not work. I don't know why.)
|>
|> I'm willing to install this in the Sipb locker. However, I don't
|> think it's good for any program to be in lots of lockers at the same
|> time. I have some suggestions:
|>
|> 1. xmcd should probably be removed from the consult locker, since the
|> version there is kind of old and not there for sgi.
|>
|> 2. xmcd 2.2, preferably with my hacks, should be installed somewhere
|> on Athena. I'll install it in the sipb locker if it will be removed
|> from the audio locker afterwards. Or, I'll ask the audio locker
|> maintainers to install 2.2, and then forget about it.
|>
|> Have a nice day.
|> -Sal.
Sounds fine to me. Let me know when it is installed in
a permanent place and I'll replace the version in consult with
a script pointing people to the correct location and make any
necessary changes to the stock answers.
Brett
