Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

["Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>]

On 02/14/06 02:37:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
> 
> > > -	does not need more time to integrate than I would need to
> > > 	write this from scratch
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, many people who send patches to me do not follow
> > > these simple rules.
> >
> > Okay - show me your standards document and I'll get to work on a patch to do 
> > what I earlier proposed. It won't be "adding new functionality" but it will 
> > be making the interface a tiny bit simpler for the novice user.
> 
> ?????
> 
> 1)	RTFM
> 2)	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/PORTING
> 3)	http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/port.ps
> 4)	http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/tools/scripts/cstyle.pl
> 
> 
> If you do not follow the spirit of the interface design or of you break
> things on other OS, your patch will not be accepted.
> 
> Jörg

You're allowed to yell RTFM to him, but when you were pointed to the HAL
documentation you cried that you didn't want to spend time reading it? How
does that work?

Jim.
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