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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
