Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[Mark Logan]

James Carlson wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore writes:
>   
>> I don't know about savings of effort, but if we're not making them 
>> public interfaces, then I prefer them in /usr/lib/parted, where folks 
>> are less likely to find them by "accident" and infer (possibly false) 
>> things about their suitability for public use.
>>
>> That said, I'd hope that if we ever shipped the public ones, that this 
>> project could be converted to use the public ones instead of keeping its 
>> own private copies.
>>     
>
> There are some questions behind what I'm asking.  If these are hacked
> versions of those utilities, then I'd like to understand how we will
> deal with the 1991/061 rules.  If they're not hacked, then I'm a
> little puzzled on why they're buried.  It's not as if this project
> team appears to want to promise a great deal of stability for parted
> itself (they're saying "Volatile," so it can't be used easily within
> the installer), so I don't understand drawing the "support" line at
> parted itself and excepting away ntfsprogs.  What support?
>
>   

I only buried ntfsprogs because I thought it would be easier to make it 
through PSARC that way. I guess I miscalculated. I did not hack 
ntfsprogs at all, it was the easiest thing to port. I have no problem 
delivering ntfsprogs in its entirety and in /usr/bin, if that is the 
consensus.

Also maybe I need to rethink the Volatile stability. I wrongly assumed 
that FOSS had to be Volatile. Also the goal is to get the OpenSolaris 
installer to use either Parted or GParted, their choice, so I need to 
choose the correct stability to achieve that.

Mark