On 06/09/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > 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?
>
> There is a plan to name the next stable release 3.0 and this is expected to be
> ready soon (after the BluRay aupport is ready).
>
> There have been many enhancements since the last "stable" release 2.01.
>
> The only CLI changes since then has been announced with the 2.0 release 5 
> years
> ago:
>
> -       Mkisofs reserves -H/-L/-P for a later Posix.1-2001 CLI implementation.
>
> -       cdrecord changed from defaulting to TAO to SAO. The next (after 3.0)
>         release will make the write mode drive dependent.
>
> This is a lot more stability than you get from Solaris (see recent tar -/
> discussion).
>
> If you like to have a cdrw emulation for cdrecord, you are invited to write 
> it.

Right, I wasn't suggesting that you personally do it. So since 3.0
isn't final yet, would you consider making showing progress output the
default?

If someone were to contribute a patch for cdrw compatibility, would
that be able to be included into 3.0, or is that too soon?

Thanks,
-- 
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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