On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Whether a tool that was developed new from scratch is automatically better is > not a given. The burden of proof is on the person trying to introduce the new > software, not on the people maintaining the current set of software. > > And claiming that parted is in pure maintenance mode is not true either. It > has a paid developer working on the project and is receiving updates and > improvements. > > Whether growlight is better and more suitable for Debian needs to be > technically proven, not just by arguing that it’s the newer project.
I would have thought that if libparted was missing 1 or 2 features, it would make more sense to add those features than to write a new tool duplicating most of the functionality. Well unless working with the maintainers of libparted is imposible. There are a few projects like that but I don't remember ever seeing complains about libparted. Now you have two tools both missing some features. Hardly an improvement. -- Len Sorensen
