Is cdparanoia / Paranoia portable?
Paranoia is Linux only (although it runs on all the flavors of linux. It is not only for i386 or x86_64). In the past, there was effort to make this library as portable as possible across other OS platforms. As time has worn on, I’ve come to realize that most cross-platform libraries that try to bring a completely uniform interface to a wide variety of very different OSes: • fail to be all that uniform • limit functionality to some subset of what any given platform can do • introduce additional lyers of bugs • just don’t work very well I’m a Linux user. I’m a Linux developer. As a user and developer, I don’t really give a damn about other platforms. I want my apps to be the best Linux apps they can be. Full stop. Should other developers like to participate on full-featured ports to other platforms, I’m all for full cooperation. I’d like to see those ports take *full* advantage of the target platform, not turn into a halfbaked subset of the features that work on both. What is Paranoia’s
