[parted-devel] Proposal: Rewrite of Parted UI

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> Just to be clear... I'd prefer this parted-ng directory to be inside
> the master branch checkout.  Not another branch.  So you'd check out
> the master branch code and see these directories inside the project:
>
> 	parted/
> 	parted-ng/
> 	libparted/
>
> While we are releasing 1.9.x, users will get both the current
> parted(8) user interface *and* the parted-ng(8) user interface.  Once
> we deem parted-ng good, we remove parted and rename parted-ng to
> parted.
>
> That was my idea.

Ack.

>> My personal idea about the design of it would be:
>>
>>  - modular;
>>
>>  - plugin based;
>>
>>  - completely new code;
>>
>> Doing it, we'll discover which parts of code will be used a lot and
>> then those would be merge on the library itself. Without this I think
>> will be difficult to identify the right parts of code that should be
>> merge and which shouldn't.
>>
>> Please, comment on it.
>
> I would like it to support sfdisk(8) scripts.  The plugin idea is
> really good.

The sfdisk mode could be another plugin (or module).

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