Joerg Schilling wrote:
Matthias Andree <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, you need to implement 30 (or so) platform-specific ways to get a
list of devices, and portable applications aren't going to do that. To
make it explicit: no way. It is a maintenance nightmare, 30 lowly-tested
pieces of code, too.
It already works in libscg since nearly 10 years.
This sounds like a huge difference, but I don't believe it actually is.
Jörg is trying to fight the system rather than stop complaining to users
about their using /dev/hd*. The scanning code is there and can be made
working with little effort probably.
Talking about /dev/hd* ignore the basic problem. Show me a way how to
send SCSI commands to a ATAPI tape drive on Linux.
Please do not forget that libscg is OS _and_ device independent.
Implementing /dev/hd* support at all is already a concession that did go to far.
You added the feature, and a message that it was accidental and
unsupported. In truth is was neither, and your little message pisses off
developers and scares casual users.
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-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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