Comment 87 for bug 885027

I agree with Preston. Discussion rapidly devolved from the beginning into accusations thrown around. Everybody is in a bad mood when they report bugs and when they receive bugs. Extra care must be taken by everyone to avoid inflammation. It would be helpful if the folks involved apologized, backed up and tried again.

What I would suggest to move forward is to see if anyone would like to volunteer to do the work on a rewrite. The discussion has been focused on patching and breaking the existing implementation and arguing if it can be done better. Nobody was ever asked for volunteers for a rewrite and that sort of discussion scares volunteers away.

@kovid What you can do now, as project owner, is create a branch and let people try and write a secure, cross platform capable mounter. You don't have to do much more than provide the branch and answer questions about the implementation as needed. Most of your job will be to stay out of the way. Let the volunteers work on their problem and see where it goes.

@Jason & @Dan & others: Would you be willing to work on a cross platform mounter, either for calibre or as a 3rd party tool/library calibre could use?