[parted-devel] FYI/TODO: massive duplication in parted.c

[Otavio Salvador]

Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:

> Whoa!
> There is a very unhealthy amount of duplication in parted.c: at least
> do_mkpart and do_mkpartfs share most of their 170-line function bodies,
> verbatim.  Also, do_mkfs and do_mkpartfs have big blocks in common.
>
> This probably doesn't matter, but just in case any of that code
> survives the upcoming UI rewrite, now we all know this would make a
> good new-developer project.

Yes, there's a bunch of bad written code there. Our library has a good
quality of code while the UI doesn't.

Leandro should have something to show up in few days/weeks?

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