[parted-devel] next to master; making a beta release soon; plans

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Thu Sep 17 14:20:34 UTC 2009


Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
>> Yes, definitely.
>> The reasons for removing functionality from the UI
>> (code is dangerously buggy) apply equally well to the API.
>> Actually removing the code will involve more work up front,
>> but will be better in the long run.
>
> Fully agree the the code removal. It will also make our life easier
> in future  since we'll stop to receive fs-related bugs :-)

Thanks for the feedback.
FYI, here are the UI commands that I'm in the process of removing:

  mkpartfs
  mkfs
  check
  cp
  move
  resize

So far, it's looking surprisingly easy.



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