Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:27:42 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available.. Message-ID: <20020319232741.GO22998@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020320000043.B31311@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <20020319163539.A77761@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200203191549.g2JFnOD89477@freebsd.dk> <20020320000043.B31311@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:00:43AM +0100, Thomas Quinot wrote: > > These utils are ATA only (as the name implies), if our ports people > > wants to merge it into whats already there I wont complain :) > > That said I think the ATA only version covers more than a significant > > percentage of our userbase.... Speaking as a ports person, I don't like the idea of having to backport these changes repeatedly over the course of a product's lifetime, and a local hack for FreeBSD is gross. > In which case I'll be more than happy to continue maintaining ATAPI/CAM > as an alternative solution, which addresses 100% of our user base and > does not impose any additional work upon application authors or port > maintainers. On the other hand, I think Thomas' approach is more maintainable. I do not understand why ATA/CAM people won't cooperate on this, but then I'm just a ports person... what do I know about maintenance? Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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