Re: cdrtools-2.01a22 ready
Arguing about MAY vs WILL and the proper use of a colon
is just a waste of time don't you think? How does any
of this noticeably impact _your_ life?
Any chance this thread can be put to rest here?
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:47, Lourens Veen wrote:
> 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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