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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:27:42 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available..
Message-ID:  <20020319232741.GO22998@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020320000043.B31311@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
References:  <20020319163539.A77761@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200203191549.g2JFnOD89477@freebsd.dk> <20020320000043.B31311@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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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

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