> cdrw is a strange program on Solaris. It has been > started as CD only > program around 2002 - 4 years after cdrecord did > introduce DVD writing support. > At the time cdrw was added to Solaris, they also > added mkisofs but not cdrecord > although cdecord and mkisofs are in the same source > distribution tar ball. > > cdrw added DVD write support for Solaris 10 after > cdrecord went into Solaris. > > Although Sun seems to be unable to put the needed > effort in e.g. "pcfs", time > and money was put into cdrw. I would be interested to > know the background....
The way I see it, Sun employs some really awesome engineers, certainly among the best and brightest in the industry. The downside is that these engineers seem to often suffer from the "not invented here" syndrome, which is really a shame. Really, really a shame. It's not just cdrecord versus cdrw. You can clearly see the NIH syndrome in packaging and Caiman projects too. Dave Miner did some truly awesome work, but not once did anybody think to stop and study how other UNIX companies successfully solved the same problems Sun faced or faces now, years and years before Sun. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
