Re: [Cdw-devel] Bugs prior to 0.5 release

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Dnia 14-07-2010 o godz. 7:09 cdw...@li... napisał(a):
> On the flip, cdrtools is already installed here - and likely a runtime
> dependency for CDW, else cdrkit which hasn't seen development for a long
> time.

cdrtools is a runtime dependency for cdw, but it is "recommended" rather 
than "essential". Without cdrtools (or cdrkit) cdw can't do burning to 
CDs, but still can burn DVDs (provided that growisofs is installed).

When user has installed growisofs, which is used to burn DVDs, but there 
is no cdrtools, with which cdw could *potentially* do reading a DVD [1], 
there would be no way to verify burning to DVD.

Having library for reading DVDs as a compile- and runtime dependency 
would allow me to read (and verify) DVD discs regardless of availability 
of growisofs/cdrtools.

It would also allow me to add "Read DVD" feature - just for dumping data 
DVDs to hard drive, as it is now done with libcdio for CDs. cdw can read 
data CDs (poorly, but still...) without cdrtools installed.

cdrkit is sometimes the only package that provides cdrecord/wodim and 
mkisofs/genisoimage on some systems - the systems that once started 
using cdrkit, but never decided to go back to cdrtools. Puppy Linux is 
one such example. As far as I know, Debian doesn't provide original 
cdrtools either.

[1] from cdrtools homepage: "readcd A program to read CD/DVD/BD media 
with CD-clone features"

Kind regards,
Kamil