(was: cdrecord -- anyone try with a Powerbook or external USB/Firewire?) > But the man pages and the documentation are not enough > to make this an easily useable application for me. It may enough for > those who have used it other systems. This is far from the only ported > app where I have problems with the documentation but it is one where > the OS X differences show up dramatically.
I completely agree with your sentiment. I find that most of the documentation in the UNIX world has been written by programmers for programmers. I would categorize myself as a power-user and pretty intelligent when it comes to using the Mac and computers. However, most man pages are incredibly dense and verbose and just don't make sense to me because I'm not a programmer. However, the poor documentation isn't necessarily the fault of the maintainer--it's the fault of the original developer who wrote the man pages. The function of a Fink maintainer is to port the app over to OS X. With that said, maybe there should be more of an emphasis on porting Gnome and KDE apps since they are more Mac-like in that they use GUIs. In the category of CDR tools, it seems like gcdmaster is the only GUI-based app, but it's not yet in the stable tree. In the CD ripper category, I'd personally like to see Grip <http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/> ported--it looks like an all-around good app. ---Roger ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
