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Re: [PATCH] Enhancements to parted's partition table printing
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Otavio Salvador |
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Re: [PATCH] Enhancements to parted's partition table printing |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:18:02 -0200 |
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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?
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