[parted-devel] Re: Parted 2.0 plans

[Otavio Salvador]

"Leslie P. Polzer" <leslie.polzer at gmx.net> writes:

> 1. move from SVN to darcs as RCS.

Hello Leslie,

I'm not sure if darcs is the best choice here. I like it very much but
one serious problem of it's the lack of permission storage. Every
script will need to be tagged as executable when building the tarball.

> 4. A solid testing framework.

That's really a _need_ thing. Also because is difficult to be sure if
one change didn't break something else and parted is a core software.

>   We will most likely receive a 600 GBP donation from the AFFS
                                  ^^^^^^^ how much is it?

> Task #3:
> ========
> * don't execute requested actions after every command.  Instead, provide a
>   "write" command that commit them to disk on user request.
> Might help: libparted API (PedDisk): Keep copy of table in memory and
>         modify this finally commit.

Debian Installer does it. We have a parted_server that has every
command queued there and then when the user ask it, it saves
everything together. Might help here.

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