On Tue, 1 May 2001, Manuel Clos wrote:
>> Authors of open source CD burning software would do well by
>> emulating the complete feature set and ease of use of Jeff's
>> software.
>
>I'm sure everyone will appreciate comments and/or ideas to improve the
>existing tools, going from cdrecord-cdrdao tools to GUI programs as
>gcombust, gtoaster and gcdmaster.
One suggestion I have that isn't just for cd burning software,
but is for general software development period, is to develop new
software using the standard libraries that come with existing
operating systems. In other words, do not require people to
upgrade libraries prematurely. It limits your number of testers,
and causes a lot of problems for people wanting to try various
software out.
Again, a generalization of a problem I see - not cd burning
isolated, is that some software is developed using the cutting
edge CVS gnome libraries, or CVS KDE, or CVS versions of
whatever, and that often requires other libraries and components
that are not a part of any existing setup. Installing these
experimental components can cause many people's existing working
setups to now be broken as older software now may not work with
the updated libraries.
This is important when we're going to say to joe blow "use the
latest version of program X" as a solution. If program X doesn't
work in the more or less standard environment joe blow has out of
the box, then it is hardly a final solution if it requires him to
upgrade core components of gnome, gtk, kde, qt, glib, and 30
other image libraries, etc..
In other words, make all software more accessible to both testers
*and* users by using standard existing libraries and tools
supported by most Linux distributions rather than using the
latest greatest experimental CVS stuff.
Also I'd like to note that *most* of the above applies only to
GUI software and frontends, etc.. and not as much to CLI tools
like cdrecord and friends, which more or less work out of the
box at the command line.
TTYL
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