Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> IMHO, when something exceptional happens in a library, the >> affected function should simply return with an indication of >> what went wrong. Unfortunately, making this particular >> library clean would be a big and risky task. > > Yes, I now agree with you. > > 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. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
