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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
