Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:02:59 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Hi Lennart :)
* Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> dixit: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:02:19PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > > cdrecord is GPL, so in the end nobody has the right to ask you to > > modify it in ways you don't like or you don't want it to. That goes > > with free software: you don't pay, you don't have the right to ask > > for things. But, how about trying to listen to third parties? I mean, > > you are probably OK ignoring my suggestions, I am probably a mediocre > > programmer, but... do you _really_ think that you are more clever > > than ALL the programmers in this mailing list? Do you _really_ think > > that you have the correct answer and that ALL of them are plainly > > wrong? Do you _REALLY_ think that EVERYBODY is wrong *except* you in > > this issue about the user interface? > > Hmm, perhaps what should be done is that someone needs to write and > maintain a patch that linux users can apply to cdrecord (since other OSs > are different and hence have no reason to use such a patch), to make it > behave in a manner which is sane on linux. It should of course be > clearly marked as having been changed in such a way. It should use udev > if available and HAL and whatever else is appropriate on a modern linux > system, and if on an old system it should at least not break the > interfaces that already worked on those systems in cdrecord.
Matthias Andree posted such a patch last week, and he was ignored by Joerg. In fact, he got an answer of "I haven't looked at it and I never will" or something like that (check the list archives).
Joerg was offered help to maintain a bit of code he doesn't want to maintain and rejected it.
> cdrecord does a wonderful job writing CDs, once you get the silly > command line syntax right and figure out which device option it > wants you to tell it to access your write. I still find the syntax > of driveropts=option=value is a bit odd, although the linux kernel > does the same thing for some kernel boot arguments as far as I > recall, so who am I to argue.
cdrecord is a good tool, no doubt about that. IMHO it can be improved by changing the user interface and getting rid of useless warnings, but nonetheless it is a good tool. The problem is Joerg attitude...
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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