[parted-devel] [Parted-edge] [RFC][PATCH] Remove alloca from libparted/arch/linux.c

[Otavio Salvador]

Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:

> Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
>> But Jim, if this is the right thing to do we ought start doing it now
>> since we can break API (on master).
>>
>> Obviously that we're going to need a lot of testing and like but I
>> can't think in a better time for it.
>
> Most volunteers aren't interested in working on fixing an interface or
> an entire library/application just because it's ugly and unmaintainable --
> besides, as people tend to say, "it already works, so why bother?".
> Of course, I think it's worth fixing, but I don't have much time for
> parted these days.
>
> Doing such clean-up work is hard, not "sexy", and largely thankless.
> It'd be great to find qualified people to work on it.

Yes but we're starting to get more people sending patches and we might
get them involved at it.

You, me and others could help and coordinate it all together.

Frodo, ping?

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