[parted-devel] Updated 'PlanningEdge' substantially

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:14:37AM +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote:

> 1. I think we should also take a look at libpartedpp
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libpartedpp
> http://www.nongnu.org/libpartedpp/), in addition to pyparted. Due
> to the similarity between C and C++ the lipartedpp implementation
> looked really simple to me. It might be much more easier to merge with
> libparted also.
Feel free to add this.

> 2. To achieve command logging we just have to dump the buffer
> maintained by readline. I know the Python way to do it, but it should
> not be much different in C.
Cool! :)

> We can also save the command history in a file so that the history is
> not lost after a session, athough this has nothing to do with command
> logging, may be we can consider this as a feature.
It would be *really* nice to automatically create a text file with
important information when a bug occurs.  The user can then be
instructed to attach this to the bug he is reporting.  Part of this file
should be command history, of course.
 
> 3. The GDB help facility does not seem to be much of an improvement
> over Parted. GDB does have the facility to paginate the help text,
GDB also features topic-specific (aka "long") help with "help <topic>"

> but I think the Python shell does it more neatly.
I see it has got its own help prompt.  Isn't this a bit too much
overhead for Parted?

  Leslie

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