Re: Parted 1.5.1-pre

[Andrew Clausen]

Dan Knapp wrote:
> 
> > I don't think backups need to be human-editable, although human
> > readable might be nice.  I think something like
> >
> > fprintf (stream,
> >        "id-%d: start-%l end-%l c-%d h-%d s-%d type-%d\n",
> >        num, start, end, c, h, s, type);
> >
> > would suffice.
> >
> > I don't think other programs would/should ever need to parse these.
> 
>   Then, that's what I'll do.  That's pretty similar to what I almost
> suggested, but I do value the stated purposes of XML,

Me too, but not inside Parted!  (Well, if we can make it a compile
option, or make support be dymanically loaded, then that's ok by me)

>   At any rate, XML is *most definitely* not easier to parse.

It probably is with libxml, or whatever ;-)

>   It would be hard for us to prevent scripting! :)  All right, in this case
> config files will be a distinct format from the backup files, so they needn't
> be figured out now...  What sort of capabilities might they have?
> 
>   The obvious, to start things off:

This is for config files?

There's one bigger problem, that we need to think about first, I think.
Automatic partitioning is NP hard (it's the knapsack problem - do you
want an explanation?  Free space is the knapsacks, the new partitions
are the "stones")

I think we need to think about how we would solve this problem first...
which will affect they config format (it affects what the parameters
are going to be)

Andrew Clausen