Hello! On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:42:16 +0200 George Danchev wrote: > On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:33, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > If they can't be used with the exact same commandline, there's no > > sense in providing these virtual packages because the programs need > > explicit support for each of those programs. (And especially with > > these writing applications, arcane options need to be specified in > > many cases, so it's not a case of a common API with some few extra > > options a backend might use if it has specific support.) > > Fair concern, but this is also true for other already existing > virtual packages -- editor comes to mind. Isn't it more important > what a functionality is being provided, and not so important how it > is provided.
Yeah, but an editor just takes one or more filenames as arguments and opens/edits these. For burning to a CD/DVD, you have to specify a bunch of options before cdrecord (for example) burns the disc (driver, device, speed, burnproof options, etc..). It's not like a "cd-writer myfile.iso" will burn the iso to CD/DVD, is it? Or at least not until we have a wrapper for every cd burning tool there is. Enjoy. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]