[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit - tone it down

[Armando M. Baratti]

On 01-02-2010 06:17, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Armando M. Baratti"<ambaratti.listas at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Strange, I have had the opposite experience.
>> Trying to burn some CDs with cdrkit (on CentOS) give some problem with
>> not being able to generate Joliet system and I have had trouble with
>> utf-8 too.
>>
>> First I thought I was making some stupid mistake, but changing to
>> cdrtools (from sourceforge repository) fixed that.
>>
>> Well, it was in another distro, but by what I've read in this thread it
>> seems to make sense now.
>
> There is nothing strange and this does not depend on the distro you are using.
>
> The fork does not handle UTF-8 correctly.
>
> BTW: the whole dispute with Debian started with an attempt from a Debian
> paketizer to make me integrate a non-working UTF-8 patch into mkisofs in May
> 2004. This patch was full of bugs and even if it did have no bugs, it would
> only handle 50% of the cases that need support for UTF-8.
>
> This broken patch is still in the fork, but in Summer 2006 I did implement
> working and complete UTF-8 support for mkisofs.
>
> There is however no cdrtools at Sourceforge, cdrtools is at Berlios ;-)
>
> Jörg
>
Excuse me I meant rpmforge repository.

Armando