Re: [PATCH] Enhancements to parted's partition table printing

[Gary Greene]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 8:18 pm, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Sven Luther <address@hidden> writes:
> > Nice patch, but i still think that there is no guarantee that future
> > versions of parted will not breka this batch-abi or whatever you call it,
> > and it is still recomended to use the actual libparted that way.
> >
> > You could even imagine writing your own libparted based wrapper to output
> > the values you want in the format you most like, and then you would need
> > to package it only once, and need to modify it only once if the abi
> > changes or something, instead of all over the place like it is done right
> > now.
>
> I personally think we could merge something like that on parted. This
> won't change anything already working and allow a better flexibility
> to users and vendors. What the rest think about?

Personally as the coder for the PhoeNUX OS Installer, I'd prefer this too, as 
presently I'm having to do some fairly nasty hacks to clear the entire drive 
(plus, this would make creating a custom partitioning UI much easier.... )

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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