From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 15:28:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5466D37B404 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 171319B13; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:27:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:27:42 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Thomas Quinot Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available.. Message-ID: <20020319232741.GO22998@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Quinot , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020319163539.A77761@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200203191549.g2JFnOD89477@freebsd.dk> <20020320000043.B31311@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020320000043.B31311@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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