I don't have anything personal against anyone here.
But before you all jump up and down shouting "wow this guy is great he's a genius!!!!", note how lazy his port is, and redundant given both MorphOS and AmigaOS' bundled DVD software, notwithstanding the fact that neither are publically available, either or both will be pretty soon.
I don't think it is at all "news" that some lazy coder did a straight port of some nasty GNU tool - there are websites full of lazy Linux ports out there.
If you think I'm being rude: maybe I am being "rude" in that I am calling someone lazy. But not without reason, which I happily gave, along with multiple solutions to the problem at hand which show that the feature is minimal effort to acheive.
Am I to be chastised for telling the truth, or being helpful and intelligent?
The guy who ported these tools can go through code to get it to even compile on AmigaOS or MorphOS, let alone work, yet he can't even add a handful of lines to allow you to specify the device and unit.
Now what do you call that, when it's at home?
He can, however, spend the time to write a huge explanation on his website of how he didn't add anywhere from 3 to 10 lines of code to the tools, make excuses about his competance, and in any case, instruct you have to download a new archive for each device!
Is that just an example of the inability to manage one's own time? Come on, enlighten me.
I actually have better things to do, that people are paying me to do, than fixing other peoples' lazy ports of Linux software and making it run better on MorphOS.
Like creating
original MorphOS software. Improving the OS in general. Creating SDK components. Writing documentation. Writing proposals and design schematics. Coming up with great ideas for features. Implementing all of them!
With so much on my plate, and with myself and my colleagues seemingly getting no appreciation for the hard work we seem to put in, day in, day out, making hardware, designing the software and providing services to the Community (hey look, all you DCE repair people are getting brand new boards!), I don't feel at all motivated to give you another service that you'll all just whine about anyway, and call me "rude" or "arrogant" for it.
Is it rude to point out that someone could have spent 30 seconds more adding immense amounts of value and quality to their application, rather than writing a bunch of ugly HTML to excuse himself from it?
Is it arrogant to feel disappointed in the fickle nature of the Community, to point out that we have done so much work, and to be generally unenthusiastic about the comments we receive from bitching Amiga users?
Nope. I don't think so.
Let's see what YOU lot are doing to push the envelope around here, instead of just posting onto forums and arguing about what a real Amiga is?
=Neko=
