Re: The future of mkisofs
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> > mkisofs is a well known program name and I cannot see that your proposal for a
> > name change could help to reduce confusion for users.
> >
> >
> Wow, think about that! You have to tell people many times a month that
> the program called cdrecord in many distributions is really "wodin" and
> works differently than your original cdrecord. Do you really want to be
> bothered by having questions about *three* versions of mkisofs, the
> current one in a38, the old one shipped with some distributions, and
> your new cleaned up version? It sounds like a waste of your time to me!
I don't see three versions of mkisofs as I know from several "professional"
users of mkisofs that they don't use the hsfs feature.
... and the main difference I see between mkisofs and the clone from "cdrkit"
is the bugs that are present in the clone but not in the original.
Jörg
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