Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:47:41 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
>Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > >>Hello! >> >> >> >>>The main problem is that there is no grant that a new model will survive >>>a time frame that makes sense to implement support. >>> >>> >>I bet that it would take less time to implement this support than what >>you spend here by arguing and trying to prove you are the only sane >>person in the world. Unsuccessfully, of course. >> >> > >If memory serves me correctly, the current model is the 3rd incompatible one >offerend within less than 5 years. > > With that I agree. Not only does the interface change, the details within a given interface must change.
>If you did ever try to write reliable code that has to deal with this kind of >oddities, you would understand that it is sometimes better to wait and to inform >related people about the problems they caused. > > This ground has been covered. And at least in the case of filtering commands, that had to be done quickly and you know it.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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