Joerg Schilling wrote:
Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I happily offer the suggestion that since the program has not been
limited to ISO9660 images for years, the name implies limitations which
don't apply, and since you can create images for most common optical
media, that a name like "mkoptimage" would be more correct as well as
preventing confusion.
mkisofs is a well known program name and I cannot see that your proposal for a
name change could help to reduce confusion for users.
Wow, think about that! You have to tell people many times a month that
the program called cdrecord in many distributions is really "wodin" and
works differently than your original cdrecord. Do you really want to be
bothered by having questions about *three* versions of mkisofs, the
current one in a38, the old one shipped with some distributions, and
your new cleaned up version? It sounds like a waste of your time to me!
And as for user confusion, I always install current cdrecord as
"CDrecord" so I won't get the one which comes with a distribution. It
would help the users if you did that with the enhanced mkisofs, because
they wouldn't use an old version and complain, or try to use features in
the new version and find they "don't work."
You know that no matter how confused the user is, it always gets
reported as bug in your software.
Best of both worlds, you don't get questions caused by users confusion,
waste time chasing bugs that aren't, and users know what they are getting.
The probably biggest help for _new_ users was to list only the "most important"
options in case of a usage error:
Most important Options:
-posix-H Follow sylinks encountered on command line
-posix-L Follow all symlinks
-posix-P Do not follow symlinks (default)
-o FILE, -output FILE Set output file name
-R, -rock Generate Rock Ridge directory information
-r, -rational-rock Generate rationalized Rock Ridge directory info
-J, -joliet Generate Joliet directory information
-print-size Print estimated filesystem size and exit
-UDF Generate UDF file system
-dvd-video Generate DVD-Video compliant UDF file system
-iso-level LEVEL Set ISO9660 level (1..3) or 4 for ISO9660 v 2
-V ID, -volid ID Set Volume ID
-graft-points Allow to use graft points for filenames
-M FILE, -prev-session FILE Set path to previous session to merge
to lead people to the right options.
Jörg
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