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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:16:20 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 

>>Isn't it good practice to adhere to the naming conventions
>>of the system to which a program is ported to? (even if 100
>>of them do it one way and 1 does it another)
> 
> 
> Well, the problem is that (in special if you include the ATAPI tape drives)
> Linux likes to enforce inapropriate naming conventions.
> 

But making up a new naming scheme which you happen to consider
more appropriate doesn't sound to me like a good solution. Not
even if you have good reasons for your likes/dislikes.

If I ported some Linux program to Windows I would not ask
the user if they wanted to save to /dev/hda5, or /mnt/c_drive
because I consider C: bad naming.

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