FreeBSD Port: dvd+rw-tools-5.8.4.4.4

[Matthew Dillon]

    Thanks for the update, Andy!  Chuck, if you have any problems
    updating the port I'm available to help.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>


:Hi,
:
:First of all I figured that I should give you a note that dvd+rw-tools 
:5.10.4.5.4 were released yesterday, addressing a NEC firmware deficiency 
:and couple of FreeBSD-specific "inconveniences" ("fdescfs inconvenience" 
:mentioned in 
:http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite%40other.debian.org/msg04262.html and 
:"open tray inconvenience" when tools failed to start with open tray 
:mentioned in the source code).
:
:And regarding dvd+rw-tools being classified as "DVD+RW burning software" 
:at ports page. Note that despite their  name dvd+rw-tools support *all* 
:DVD recording formats and should probably be classified as "DVD burning 
:software":-) Then as for description section which now starts with "This 
:software allows one to use a DVD burner, as well as supporting 
:multisession CD-R/W formats, primarily via the "growisofs" utility." I 
:have to object:-) growisofs does not support CD-R/W in any way. It fully 
:supports DVD multi-sessioning [which is by the way growisofs' *unique* 
:feature, at least for a free Unix program]. As for CD recordings, 
:cdrecord is still the one to use. In case you wonder, no, you don't need 
:closed-source cdrecord-ProDVD to burn CD in a DVD burner, plain cdrecord 
:is sufficient for this task. In either case my suggestion for the 
:sentence in question is "This software allows one to perform DVD 
:recordings in a DVD burner, primarily via the growisofs utility. As the 
:name suggests growisofs fully supports DVD multi-sessioning." Or 
:something, but do remove CD-R/W!
:
:Cheers. A.