On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Boyd Lynn Gerber
wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
could it be possible to calm down? I would be happy, even if we had a discussion on technical issues only. There are _many_ technical issues with the fork that all go away if you upgrade to recent original software. This would of course require some
"jdd (kim2)"
wrote: people to first calm down. I am prepared for a fact based discussion and I am happy to discuss technical problems based on facts if there are others who are also interested in a fact based discussion - thank you! You could setup a OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS) account and build for the most populart distributions. Right now factory is open to having packages submitted. You follow the rules and behave in a proper manner and the package could be put into factory.
There is already a binary package created by a suse user, I believe his name is Hennning Paul. I currently cannot fint it :-(
Please note that I am the author and I spend my on making cdrtools bug-free and higly portable. This takes a lot of time. The spcific communities for specific platforms need to take care of creating binaries.
I understand that, but think of the advantage of tracking and fixing all
bugs for linux in one place. Also the OBS, is great for local use as
well. I have my own local OBS, just for the devs on my machines. It is
OSS and one is able to modify the code accordingly. Packman, now has an
OBS and from what I gather, they are moving everything to being build
within it.
There are a lot of advantages in using it. But as you said, you are the
author and you use what is best for you. But this is an option to get
more compliance with what you are striving to achive. Sometimes the way
of least resistence is best.
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Boyd Gerber