[parted-devel] Developing a Curses frontend

[Anant Narayanan]

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Hi Sadrul,

> > I started playing a little with libparted tonight. I looked at the
parted
> > source, and have created a very basic UI for it. There's a
screenshot here:
> > http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~schow031/gnt/gntparted.html, and the code is
> > here: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~schow031/gnt/gntparted.c. LibGNT is
> > available in Gaim's SVN repository (
> > http://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gaim/trunk/console/libgnt/).

Looks impressive indeed!

> > I would like to put it up for people to review, fix bugs, enhance
etc. So,
> > would you guys be willing to create a repo for this, or should I get
some
> > space somewhere (perhaps on SourceForge? Do you guys prefer somewhere
> > else?).

The "official" alternative command-line interface to libparted is GNU
fdisk (http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk). If I'm not wrong, the cfdisk
component of GNU fdisk offers a curses-based interface to libparted.

While we do encourage projects to use libparted; I would personally
advise you to help out with fdisk instead. Of course you could always
try and convince us as to why the GNT based solution is better: What
advantages does it offer? Does it make something easier to do? While it
is good to have several alternative interfaces to parted; it's only good
if they offer significantly different features than the rest and is
suited for a specific environment (like GParted and QtParted).

Anyway, this is only my personal opinion and hence "off the record".
Don't take me too seriously  ;) . Leslie should be able to give an
authoritative answer as to whether we can house your project or not.

> > Also, what's the best way of communicating with the developers? Is that
> > this
> > mailing list, or is there some chatroom you people hang around?

All the parted developers are on the mailing list; you've written to the
right place. We would love to have a chatroom on Freenode; but given
that the head-count over here is just 5, it won't make sense especially
given that all 5 of us are in different timezones  :)

I wish you all the best with your effort!

Cheers,
Anant
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