INSTALLATION NOTES FOR CD-Rchive2 version 2.0.1

IMPORTANT

This installation uses a script which invokes qmake to build a system dependent Makefile, rather than the traditional configure make sequence. qmake is part of the QT system - if you dont have QT3 you can't use CD-Rchive2 anyway

To build from sources and install:-

                        cd to the expanded cdrchive2 source dir
                        run ./MAKEandINSTALL

THE CONFIGURATION FILE

CD-Rchive2 uses the QSettings class from QT3 to save your settings. This caused problems in previous versions with QT saving in the /etc/cdrchiverc file but then reading $HOME/.qt/cdrchiverc and never updating. Now it is just in /etc/cdrchiverc

If you have the earlier version CD-Rchive installed. your /etc/cdrchiverc will be deleted to prevent config problems

After this initial populating of the config file, the file /etc/cdrchiverc can be usefully edited by the user in ONLY 1 FIELD 'TEMP='

All other fields are overwriten by the contents of the corresponding line edit controls etc when CD-Rchive2 is closed.

CD-Rchive2 uses /tmp directory by default for temporary files used to display output If you wish to change the temporary file directory edit this with a FULL path of the new directory

RUNNING CD-Rchive2

Open CD-Rchive2 and if the documentation displays, all is well with the installation of documents, bitmaps etc.

When first run, CD-Rchive2 will display hints in many of the fields. Edit these with your own details and press the [EXIT] button.

Run CD-Rchive2 again and you will find all these entries saved and now displayed

BUGFIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

03062001 mkisofs latest versions deprecated the -a switch which corresponds to the

        'include all files' checkbox on the Image tab page.  This checkbox is not now
        automatically set, allowing old and new versions of mkisofs to work. It remains a 
        valid user selection for older verions of mkisofs.

09062001 Excludes were not being put into the commandline when testing the size of an image

        on the Source tab page.  I had left myself a commented reminder but missed it! Now
        works correctly.

18062001 Source / Exclude / wav file listbox code changed to allow up to 26 entries in each

        Method of writing cdr.conf changed to accomodate but remain backwardly compatible
        and automatically convert existing entries to new format.
        All browse dialogs changed to QT standard QFileDialog.  Standardises appearence
        and reduces binary size by 40K.

21062001 2 typos in Makefile.in and one of source files preventing auto compilation fixed

28062001 Generated Makefile now has uninstall section 'make uninstall'

         Just displays details of which files to delete.  Too risky automatically deleting
         on someone elses system.

13072001 Thanks to Jacob Meuser's patches for OpenBSD, that platform is now supported by CD-Rchive.

        Patches deal with differences in capabilities of versions of mkisofs and cdrecord 
        available for OpenBSD, differences in file system structure, default shells etc.etc.
        I have incorporated the areas dealt with by the patches into a separate OpenBSD distribution, 
        with amended sources.
        The non-functional aspects have just been disabled, allowing for the functionality to be
        introduced if/when developments in versions of mkisofs & cdrecord ported for OpenBSD leads
        to Joliet files and Multi-Session recording etc. being supported.

        A small bugfix in the main Linux branch of the project, discovered whilst doing the above,
        and a minor change to warn regards using deprecated mkisofs switches prompted a re-release
        so both Linux and OpenBSD have a unified version number of cdrchive-1.2.3

12112001 Ported to QT3 and used QSettings for configuration

         Tried QProcess and found my own MGProcess did a better job.
         Cleaned up SCSI CD device lists
         Fixed typo which caused error when grabbing fixed duration of audio from CD-A
         Added information dialog giving help when 'Test Size' of image produces zero.
         Cleaned up logic re Home button slot which sometimes stopped it operating.

08072004 CD-Rchive uses the QSettings class from QT3 to save your settings.

        This caused problems in previous versions with QT writing to /etc/cdrchiverc file but then
        reading $HOME/.qt/cdrchiverc and consequently never updating.  Now it is just in /etc/cdrchiverc
        Changes to the output of newer versions of cdrecord and mkisofs led to incorrect information 
        being parsed from their output and drive list boxes which contained additional text.
        Estimate size of file image now works properly again (mkisofs had switched the value to stdout)
        and using cdrecords --listscsi now just produces an available drive list for source and target 
        devices without the extraneous text which crept through.
        Widget spacing and text OC
        etc tidied up and HTML help files updated to reflect far easier methods
        of mounting an IDE/ATAPI drive as SCSI under later kernels

01062005 Complete re-vamp! Released CD-Rchive2

10092005 Repair to bootable CD code error caused by typo which prevented some items being displayed in boot menu

23092005 Added facility to convert .wav to .mp3 when ripping from CDDA

HOPE YOU FIND CD-Rchive2 USEFULL!!