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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:42:51 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, dfpleal@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: cant burn a cd iso
Message-ID:  <4A4A084B.2050405@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4a4a05f5.7bXPwuzCTABxJvS6%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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on 30/06/2009 15:32 Joerg Schilling said the following:
> Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> 
>> I am confused - in none of your postings I found what is the latest version of
>> cdrtools and where it can obtained.
>> Could you please help us with this?
>>
>> I looked here:
>> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
> 
> If you lookd at the web site....
> 
> 
>> followed "Old/Stable" link:
>> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/
>> and it seems that version 2.01 from 2004 is still the greatest one (in the
>> version-comparison sense).
> 
> ....you should know that the latest version is 2.01.01a60
> 
> What is the reason for following the "Old/Stable" link?
> 
> 2.01 is completely outdated and should be avoided because of many bugs (e.g. in 
> mkisofs).

Sorry if sounded like a smart-ass, I didn't intend that.
I had suspicions about "Old" part of the link, but I was looking for "Stable".
Maybe we just see different things behind words like "alpha", "beta" and "stable".
But FreeBSD ports typically track stable releases of third-party programs, only in
exceptional cases we create "-devel" versions of the ports that track betas or
other kind of WIP.
I realize that there is a new trend of "permanently beta" software (GOOG), but I
think that it would be beneficial to the community of users of your software if
you'd split Old and Stable categories and declared some recent version of cdrtools
to be a Stable Release.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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