Re: Fedora - time to blink

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sat, 11/26/11, Frantisek Hanzlik  wrote:
> From: Frantisek Hanzlik 
> Subject: Re: Fedora - time to blink
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" 
> Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011, 2:24 AM
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:58 +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik
>
> wrote:
> > > License restrictions are one thing, but IMO Fedora
>
> did mistakes in
> > > free SW preference too - e.g. in each version of
>
> Fedora for several
> > > recent years I had to replace cripled and
>
> unmaintained wodim with
> > > original cdrtools, because otherwise I won't able
>
> burn CD/DVD media.
> > ah but it was exactly licensing issues that caused the
>
> fork of cdrtools
> > into wodim...
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit
> >
> > That said, it might have been more productive to file
>
> bugs against wodim
> > for things that haven't worked for you.
> >
> > Craig
>
> It is far simpler for me build cdrtools package and have
> fine result
> in several minutes. And especially about wodim there was/is
> many
> bugreports and as I wrote, it was basically unmaintained.
>
> But, I don't only criticise Fedora. When cdrtools is
> insuitable for
> Fedora, then probably may be in rpmfusion repos, and I can
> maintain
> it there. If so, can anyone give me any directions how do
> it?
> Regards, Franta Hanzlik

Could this be of help:

http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/distromatic.html?tag=devel&pkg=cdr...

?

Also this

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507108

Whistler maintain(ed)(s)? for fedora cdrtools here:

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=29bdd7826332657e&sc=documents&uc=4&am...

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Antonio