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

[Joerg Schilling]

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> cdrkit: 1.1.9 -> 1.1.10 (1 year), 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7 (another year). Only 
> few changes in in each release in years.
> cdrtools: 13 releases in 2007, 20 in 2008, 16 in 2009, 3 in this month. 
> Lots of changes in each release.
>
> The difference is really big.

For mkisofs, the difference is ~ 50% of the code.
For cdda2wav, the difference is ~ 20% of the code.
For cdrecord, the difference is ~ 30% of the code.

This does not even count powerful new code like "libfind".

The original project has a sustained average putback rate of ~ 3 putbacks
per day. People who like to be in competition to the original cdrtools would
need to be a lot more active in order to catch up with the progress in the 
original project.

Jörg

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