Re: wodim/cdrecord

On 02/02/2011 12:47 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dave Plater wrote:
>   
>>>>>> I did a bit of research :
>>>>>> http://www.cdrkit.org/
>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jörg_Schilling
>>>>>> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/
>>>>>> http://schily.blogspot.com/
>>>>>> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
>>>>>>             
> [...]
>   
>> I've just finished confronting him with various licenses and as far as
>> he seems to be concerned the GPL can go to hell. I've left him in his
>> self created hell.
>> As long as everything works everybody is happy and I don't think we'll
>> see the original cdrecord and cdrtools in any GPL friendly distribution
>> for a while.
>>     
> This thread started precisely because not everybody is happy with the current situation: wodim fails to work properly sometimes.  
>
>   
>> I'm going to try it out for myself though just to see if the authors
>> megalomania is justified.
>>     
> So, the trial is finished and sentenced already?
>
> Anyway, there are technical problems related to the usage of wodim, and these issues seem to be solved when using  cdrtools-3, which is available in Factory. For 11.3, cdrtools-3 is also available in http://jftp.medozas.de/openSUSE_11.3/ 
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
>   
I don't even know what all the fuss is about, in fact I;m wondering if
it isn't an imposter that's making all the noise. Who ever it is has no
sense of logic, something that's generally as important for programming
as vision is for driving or it could be a language problem. I did a diff
between the berlios and os cdrtools packages and they're the same source
wise, strange.
I linked in cdrtools to my home project and have some dvds to burn in
the morning which I shall do after installation. I need to update to
factory but I'm too tired to do all the repository editing atm, I'll do
that tomorrow after I've sent the latest blender to factory or Thursday
in fact. opensolaris hasn't even got cdrtools.
It's 02:00 here.
Good night
Dave P