On 06/09/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > If you did tell me this in February 1996, you had a chance....
> > > I am giving people long term stability. It is too late now.
> >
> > How does showing the progress of the CD write a matter of stability?
> >
> > Are you implying that the output of the program can never change?
>
> Many programs depend on the output of cdrecord.

> > All software changes eventually.
> >
> > Surely a 2.x version of cdrecord could break such stability in favour
> > of a better user experience?
>
> 2.0 has been published 5 years ago.

Okay, a "major version release greater than the current release" - I
wasn't being literal.

Let's suppose then for a moment that you add backwards compatibility
with cdrw so we can replace it and have better output and user
defaults for cdrecord. Would that be worthy of a major version
increment?

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth
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