Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready
On Thu 8 January 2004 13:47, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> From lourens@rainbowdesert.net Wed Jan 7 16:34:14 2004
>
> >> If you unpack this on a Linux-2.6 system using a "star" binary
> >> that has been compiled on Linux-2.4, you will extract a
> >> character special with minor 88 instead of minor 7000.
> >>
> >> This proves that you cannot run binaries from Linux-2.4 on
> >> Linux-2.6 correctly.
> >
> >Well, it proves that you cannot run _some_ binaries that were
> >compiled under linux 2.4 on linux 2.6 correctly.
>
> Well as you may easily read frm the mail to this thread, most
> people are unable to understand which programs would have such
> problems. For this reason, I did use a general warning.
No, you did not. You said, and I quote (module formatting):
"It has _always_ been wrong to compile software only once for
different kernel versions (e.g. for compile Linux-2.4 and later
install a 2.2 kernel on the so created system).
Now that Linux-2.6 introduces incompatible changes to kernel/user
interfaces, the resulting binaries will not work correctly
anymore."
You did not issue a warning, you said it was impossible, and that no
matter what kind of program it is, it will never work. As I said
before, you should either say that it _may_ not work for software
in general, or that it _will_ not work for cdrecord and star.
> >Incidentally, your announcements are still a mess. I keep
> > thinking that the BerliOS Open Source center is a new feature
> > of cdrtools each time I read them. Advertisements should be at
> > the bottom.
>
> Well I could put the first line a bit lower, but I cannot
> understand that people could take the sentence starting with
> "Please have a look..." as an announcement for a new feature.
Well, your first line reads:
"NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a22:"
Generally, a colon is followed by an enumeration of things
described. Hence, after reading the first line, I expect new
features of cdrtools, not an advertisement for BerliOS. It's rather
obvious that it is an advertisement, and not a description of a
cdrtools feature, but that doesn't make it any better.
Lourens
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