[geeks] CD Database

[Phil Stracchino]

Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> This doesn't actually help you, but I just ran across this bit of  
> relevance:
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html is a good rant too.  I have long
refused to use Gnome if I can possibly avoid it because it's so bloated
and so broken, because it is apparently coded by cocaine-addicted
ferrets obsessed with being a better Windows than Windows ... except on
Linux.  Bugs aren't fixed so much as obsoleted and replaced, the API is
a moving target, it has a dependency graph instead of a dependency tree,
and trying to compile it (or any subset) of it from scratch on a system
on which a recent version is not already installed is as likely to fail
as work.  (Not to mention the documentation is all but nonexistent, and
what documentation you *can* find is as likely as not to be obsolete.)


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