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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
