Homer wrote:
Verily I say unto thee, that Matt spake thusly:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:

Does it matter if it's cross-platform though?
Does it matter in what sense?

Your responses remind me of Bill Gates' evasive depositions to the DOJ.


Depends by what you mean by the word "of".

Homer wrote:
Verily I say unto thee, that Matt spake thusly:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:

Does it matter if it's cross-platform though?
Does it matter in what sense?

Your responses remind me of Bill Gates' evasive depositions to the DOJ.

Obviously I believe it matters whether it is cross-platform, and Roy has
to be aware of that in some sense, so it remains to ask in what sense he
intended his question. I don't know. Do you?

It's getting pretty obvious that, if a project starts on Linux, it is often
cross-platform.

Why?

Because tools like GNU automake, perl, python, encourage it.

Verily I say unto thee, that Matt spake thusly:
Please find for me a FOSS project that:

* does not have a Windows-only FOSS equivalent

Spot the oxymoron.

If you can, then you'll understand why this entire thread is redundant.

I don't know where you did get this wrong information from.

cdrecord (cdrtools) is the only cross platform FROSS CD/DVD/BD writing
software. Cdrtools currently has SCSI support for at least 22 different
operating system platforms (not counting variants that are caused by
different CPU types and counting all MS-WIN variants as only 1 platform).

cdrdao uses a very old SCSI transport lib from cdrtools and is not
written as portable as cdrtools is. It supports only CD media and a few
platforms.

growisofs only supports DVD media and even much less platforms than cdrdao.

If you take cdrtools from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
the real problem is the limited portability of k3b.

K3b makes the mistake to try to send SCSI commands by itself instead of
calling cdrtools in order to get the needed information from drive and
medium in a really portable way.

counting all MS-WIN variants as only 1 platform).

I guess the forkers...

could produce a cross-platform version in parallel,
such version working like and using the same data formats as the
Windows-only version. The cost of producing such a version goes about
like the cost of reverse-engineering the GUI, since the forkers can
patch into the main body of code regularly. As Linux and Mac supplanted
Windows, the cross-platform version would supplant the Windows-only version.

On the other hand, while Linux usage is currently small, Linux+Mac usage
is a lot bigger, and that would make it easier to convince the current
Windows-only developers to take the project across platforms. By the
way, I don't expect huge increases in Linux usage until the
Windows/Office division of MS is a lot closer to broke due to
counter-Linux discounts.

I suppose that the availability of any cheap or free Windows
equivalent would inhibit the development of any Windows-capable FOSS
equivalent, whether or not that Windows-capable FOSS equivalent were
also cross-platform. Maybe there are already ample cheap or free
disc-burning apps on Windows satisfying demand and acting as
placeholders, despite what you state above ...

After takin' a swig o' grog, Matt belched out this bit o' wisdom:

I guess the forkers...

Or the motherforkers <grin>.

After takin' a swig o' grog, Matt belched out
this bit o' wisdom:

I guess the forkers...

Or the motherforkers <grin>.

could produce a cross-platform version in parallel,

Thank you for cdrecord. I used to use cdrecord and mkisofs from the
command line. Now I guess I still use them through Nautilus, which pops
up when I insert a blank disc on Ubuntu.

On Ubuntu there unfortunately is currently neither cdrecord nor mkisofs.
The software they distribute instead is from a broken illegal fork.
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I wonder whether you can say anything about the prospects for bringing
XP/Vista/7 support to cdrecord. Especially I wonder why you aren't
calling for volunteers to implement that support.

"Vista" is NT-6.0, "Win-7" is NT-6.1. Do you believe that Microsoft
will break interfaces in a minor release upgrade?

After takin' a swig o' grog, Joerg Schilling belched out
this bit o' wisdom:

Thank you for cdrecord. I used to use cdrecord and mkisofs from the
command line. Now I guess I still use them through Nautilus, which pops
up when I insert a blank disc on Ubuntu.

On Ubuntu there unfortunately is currently neither cdrecord nor mkisofs.
The software they distribute instead is from a broken illegal fork.
===================

Why don't you sue someone, then?

Rule of thumb: don't believe Wikipedia as long as it's Administrators actively suppress correct information and replace it by FUD.

This may be part of a FUD campaign at Wikpedia as WP at the same time lists other CD writing software as "platorm independent" that has been ported to less than 4 platforms.

After takin' a swig o' grog, Joerg Schilling belched out
this bit o' wisdom:

Thank you for cdrecord. I used to use cdrecord and mkisofs from the
command line. Now I guess I still use them through Nautilus, which pops
up when I insert a blank disc on Ubuntu.

On Ubuntu there unfortunately is currently neither cdrecord nor mkisofs.
The software they distribute instead is from a broken illegal fork.
===================

Why don't you sue someone, then?