Boyd Lynn Gerber
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.
It would be nice if there was a single point for discussing and fixing Linux bugs like the bugs in the drivers and e.g. hald.
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.
I do not prefer a specific platform except for maybe Solaris because this is the development platform, but this is because Solaris has the best debug tools and because the SCSI interface is the closes to what I need. Note that I did write the first known SCSI pass through implementation in 1986 and I did it on SunOS. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org