Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:44:48PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:40, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:04:06PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote:
> > > > > > but there should be no problem at least to use
> > > > > > parted standalone in place of cfdisk.
> > > > >
> > > > > > But then, parted is less user
> > > > > > friendly than cfdisk.
> > > > > This is disputable question actually :) Some people like prated much
> > > > > more then cfdisk.
> > > >
> > > > Well, sure, but as it will be used for the end user, a cfdisk like
> > > > thingy would be better suited.
> > > okay, probably cfdisk's interface is liked more by end users. But this
> > > mean, that somebody should improve parted interface (ncurses, etc) :)
> >
> > I think there is something really wrong with parted.
>
> It is good, that Andrew Clause did not hear what you said :)
Well, it is not all that bad, just that (in my opinion) more could be
moved to libparted.
> > It should contain
> > only the interface stuff, and let the real code sit in libparted,
> actually it is exactly what you said.
>
> Parted itself contains commands handling, readline callbacks, list
> implementation, etc.
Sure, and the rescue code for example is almost 200 lines long, code
which will have to be duplicated in every partitioning application using
libparted.
> > but
> > this is not the case. There is some code in parted, which if doing
> > another interface, will need to be rewritten or separated.
>
> parted is a front end first of all which uses libparted. Anybody is able
> to implement another front end based on libparted.
Yes, rewriting much of the code you have in parted.
> But when I said, about improving parted interface, I meant, that
> somebody should write a patch exactly to making parted to use ncurses or
> something like this. I've not meant to write another front end. Actually
> there is one called qtparted.
Yes i understood that, but parted is more than a front end, it contains
code to do stuff, which could somewhat be moved into libparted to not be
duplicated everywhere. Not much code, but still.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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