Re: MinGW port

[Joerg Schilling-3]

Hi,

why do you still forward my mail to unrelated people?
Why do you still send no reply to me making it impossible for
me to answer?

If you like to discuss things in the open, I recommend you to use the official
mailing list for cdrtools developers:

        cdrecord-developers@...

If you believe that smake depends on symbolic links, then you did never try
to compile smake.

Smake is an automake enhanced make program that knows how to retrieve system
information.

The Schily makefile system is build on state of the art technology developed
for Plan 9 20 years ago. It uses a cleanly ans simple structured system of make
rules. This helps to avoid the unneeded complexity from cmake that is a cause
for problems.

More than 2/3 of your changes are unneeded in the original because you did put
effort in working on cmake issues that do not exist in the original software.


Please note that cdrkit cannot be legally distributed because it is violating
the Copyright law and the GPL. If you put effort in this fork, it is not
legally usable and you put effort into an extremely old version.


If you however work on the original software, wou get all the new features and
your effort can be used by others.

I recommend you to check the latest sources on

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/

(look at the intermediate schily-dist.pre.tar.bz2

you will see that all your changes that look correct have already been
integrated. As I am (in contrary to the people behind the fork) interested
in being able to give long term support for my software, I cannot apply patches
that may cause problems on other platforms. If you use the latest software,
I expect only a few minor problems on MINGW and for this I need useful
explanations for your problems to allow to create quality software that is
ready for the future.



Jörg

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