Re: what difference xorriso is it going to make on the user interface?

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Thomas Schmitt"<scdbackup@gmx.net>  wrote:
>    
>
> > As we are at it, mkisofs can produce HFS images and simple UDF,
> > which xorriso cannot.
> >      
> I am planning to remove HFS support in the future as it seems to be unlikely
> tha there is a noticable number of Mac OS 9 users left over today.
>
>    
As noted below others are using it. I assume that the effort of 
maintaining the capability is low (zero?)
and making an effort to remove a feature which is being used takes your 
time and gives one more thing
for someone to complain about.
> Note that mkisofs of cource supports much more than simple UDF. While
> "genisoimage" is dead since it has been begun and stays as the feature set from
> September 2004, mkisofs has seen many enhancements - in special for UDF.
>
> There are e.g. Apple specific UDF enhancements.....
>
>    
> > HFS is needed for production of bootable Debian images for PowerPC.
> > (They still have to use genisoimage for that.)
> > Here i lack entirely of specs and would have to explore open source code.
> >      
> If they use this, they are doing it wrong.
>    
That is possible, but it's being usefully employed, and it's their 
distribution.

--
E. Robert Bogusta
  It seemed like a good idea at the time