Re: Current issues

[Otavio Salvador]

"K.G." <address@hidden> writes:

>> * code analysis tools: what do you think about setting up LXR and 
>> nightly-updated Doxygen docs on our Berlios space? Too much overhead?
>> Good idea?
>
> For me it's a good idea. I would also like a wiki or something to discuss
> about long term changes, a 1.7 branch, ...

Would be good if we build a development page inside of Alioth. Or, if
you like, we can use wiki.debian.net for it. Its already done and
working so we won't need to install anything.
> * Apples iPod: Apple messed the whole msdos partition format on their iPods;
> they did an awfull mix between DBR and MBR, used a system partition with
> ID 0 (which means Free), ... Never seen anything so stupid before :)
> So I did a quick hack to let Parted work with this strange format, but
> i'm not really happy with it. I'm not sure this is really important to let
> people use Parted on their msdos formated iPod anyway, especially if it
> means supporting broken things. Maybe a detection and a message saying
> that Apple uses a broken partition table format on their dos formated iPod
> would be better. I really don't want to do any kind of voluntary after
> sale support for Apple because of their own mess.

Would be better to support iPod case like another partition format?
like Apple iPod partition format? So we can leave it clear for the
enduser that isn't compatible at all with msdos.

> * scientific units: this is work in progress. The display changes are
> done, the input ones aren't.
...
> If people like it this could be merged when it is finished.

I liked a lot.

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