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Re: hello, hurd support, other ideas
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: hello, hurd support, other ideas |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:25:10 +1100 |
Glenn McGrath wrote:
> I was talking to Timshel Knoll today regarding parted, and it prompted
> me to join the list to discuss a few ideas.
You live in Melbourne? Should chat soon... I'm off to Brazil in
a 2-4 weeks (long story as to why I don't know the exact date,
but I should know in ~3 hours ;-)
> 1) Hurd support
> The Hurd doesnt have any working partitioning programs at the moment,
> this is biggest (only) problem holding back a native hurd installer,
> which would be a really good thing for them.
Yep. I would certainly like to make Parted more portable.
> 2) fdisk style user interface
> I started working on a interface that implemented only traditonal
> fdisk
> functionality, i think it could be handy for people to be able to use
> libparted for basic partitioning without having to learn a new commands.
> Im not sure what i did with the interface, but i remember it didnt
> take
> much work, it would be fairly easy to knock it together.
I can't believe how many people are attached to fdisk! Old
traditions...
> 3) dynamic loading modules
> For a partitioning program i consider libparted to be pretty big
> (maybe
> im being picky), it would be great if different functionality could be
> implemented in dynamic modules, that way some basic features could work
> in a more restricted space.
I've been thinking about this, too. It would be useful to have
Parted on boot/rescue disks, but including FAT support on a Mac
boot disk is a waste of space!
> My motivation for these features comes from working on the next debian
> installer.
Sounds good :-)
> Im willing to work on these features after i spend a bit of time on
> another program, just thought i should mention it here anyway.
Excellent :-)
Andrew Clausen