[parted-devel] Introduction of a new parted-devel list member

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr> writes:
> 
> 
>>Harley D. Eades III wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>To synthesize the discussion with Harley: currently, ext2/3 is handled
>>>>by native code and indeed parted should switch to deferring some
>>>>ext2/3 "knowledge" to external code. Whether it should link to
>>>>libext2fs or call mke2fs/e2fsck/resize2fs (which use libext2fs
>>>>themselves) has yet to be decided, and the decision will also have to
>>>>take other filesystems into account.
>>>
>>>I feel that only adding a single dependency is more realistic then to
>>>introduce many.  So IMHO linking to libext2fs would be more efficient.
>>
>>OTOH, libext2fs is part of e2fsprogs, which contains e2fsck,
>>resize2fs, mke2fs and the like, so the dependency does not really vary
>>whether we consider using the lib or the progs.
> 
> 
> I agree and disagree here. I think that if we can use the library
> directly here would be great also because allow us to plug it in our
> code instead to write another layer to use the applications and write
> a lot of code to parse the progress, errors and like.

We would probably need a layer for the lib as well, only different but 
no less complex; after all, we would ask for the same progress and error 
feedbacks. Frankly, until after I've had a look at all of parted's ext2 
code, libext2fs's API and the ext2 progs, I won't say one is better than 
the other.

>>>>For the time being, I am setting up my devel environment and getting
>>>>familiar with the parted code. :)
>>>
>>>Enjoy your journey..If you have any questions please feel free to
>>>ask. :)
>>
>>I'm already asking questions, but so far these are directed to my
>>Linux machine and take the general form of "why the heck do you need
>>this old version of autoconf?" :)
> 
> 
> We can update the build requirements of parted but we also should try
> to keep them compatible with many versions as possible otherwise we
> can make difficult to users to build it in old linux distributions and
> this isn't our goal ;-)

Of course!

The problem was in my setup, not in the parted build. Once I installed 
gettext-devel, the autogen.sh phase went well. Now for the configure and 
build, but that's going to have to wait until tonight french timezone 
I'm afraid.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.