Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
I would like to discuss a proposal for Parted 2.0. I think we should
rewrite the Parted UI application.
Current code has a lot of problems and should be refactored but while
I was looking at it and talking to David on IRC we thought that could
be better to rewrite it.
The idea is:
- start a parted-ng directory on master branch and keep it while it
miss features against current parted ui,
- once it's done replace the parted with the parted-ng version.
Just to be clear... I'd prefer this parted-ng directory to be inside the
master branch checkout. Not another branch. So you'd check out the
master branch code and see these directories inside the project:
parted/
parted-ng/
libparted/
While we are releasing 1.9.x, users will get both the current parted(8)
user interface *and* the parted-ng(8) user interface. Once we deem
parted-ng good, we remove parted and rename parted-ng to parted.
That was my idea.
My personal idea about the design of it would be:
- modular;
- plugin based;
- completely new code;
Doing it, we'll discover which parts of code will be used a lot and
then those would be merge on the library itself. Without this I think
will be difficult to identify the right parts of code that should be
merge and which shouldn't.
Please, comment on it.
I would like it to support sfdisk(8) scripts. The plugin idea is really
good.
--
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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