freebsd announce - Nov 1995 - ANNOUNCEMENT: Port/package of WorkMan-1.3 now available!

Well, I've finally had some time to sit down and figure out the mechanics 
of making ports/packages, and so have decided to contribute something 
useful to the FreeBSD community using my new-found knowledge. :)

To that end, a port of the WorkMan audio CD player, version 1.3, is now 
available at:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/workman.tar.gz
	This is a tarred copy of the ports directory for WorkMan.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/WorkMan-1.3.tgz
	This is an installable (binary) package of WorkMan.

I must thank Todd Pfaff <todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca> for doing the initial 
porting to FreeBSD 1.0.  There were some changes and general beating-up 
of the source code needed to get it to work properly using 2.x (at least, 
on my setup (SCSI CD-ROM on Adaptec 1542CF controller) some changes were 
needed).  And besides, it was never formalized as a 'port' or
'package'.
So here it is. :)

For those of you wondering "what the @#%@#$%# is he talking about?", 
perhaps this excerpt from the WorkMan README will help describe what this is:

-----CUT HERE
WorkMan is a graphical tool for playing audio compact discs on a CD-ROM
drive.  It has most of the features available on standalone CD players,
such as a shuffle mode, programmable playlists, and elapsed/remaining
timers.  But it also has extra features, foremost of which is the ability
to store information about CDs in a database, then automatically extract
that information when the CD is inserted later.  WorkMan stores the
artist's name, the disc title, the names of individual tracks, and even
remembers which tracks you don't want to hear!  All in an easy-to-use,
attractive OPEN LOOK graphical interface.
-----CUT HERE

Finally, since this is an OPEN LOOK program, the XView development 
environment must be installed (consisting of the 
xview-{clients,config,lib} packages, and possibly one of olwm/olvwm 
(window managers).

Please report any problems with this port/package to me at the email 
below.  Since this is my first try at this, there will undoubtedly be 
errors in it. :)

Cheers,

Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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 * Please report any problems with this port/package to me at the email 
 * below.  Since this is my first try at this, there will undoubtedly be 
 * errors in it. :)

Thanks!  I tried it and in general it seems to be working great, so I
made some minor changes and committed it.  Please take it and see
what's up!

By the way, I tried the "workmandb.gz" file found in the same
directory as the source, but it seems like some of the fields do not
come out exactly the same -- most notably the last field of the
"tracks" line is always off by one (in either direction), and my CDs
are not recognized even though they are in the database.

Also, it complains about not being able to write to /var/run, we can
solve it by making it setuid-bin but I'm not sure if it's safe enough
to do that.

Well, let me know what you think about the above comments.  It's an
excellent program though!

Satoshi