hello, hurd support, other ideas

[Glenn McGrath]

Hi

I was talking to Timshel Knoll today regarding parted, and it prompted
me to join the list to discuss a few ideas.

1) Hurd support
        The Hurd doesnt have any working partitioning programs at the moment,
this is biggest (only) problem holding back a native hurd installer,
which would be a really good thing for them.

2) fdisk style user interface
        I started working on a interface that implemented only traditonal fdisk
functionality, i think it could be handy for people to be able to use
libparted for basic partitioning without having to learn a new commands.
        Im not sure what i did with the interface, but i remember it didnt take
much work, it would be fairly easy to knock it together.

3) dynamic loading modules
        For a partitioning program i consider libparted to be pretty big (maybe
im being picky), it would be great if different functionality could be
implemented in dynamic modules, that way some basic features could work
in a more restricted space. 


My motivation for these features comes from working on the next debian
installer.

Im willing to work on these features after i spend a bit of time on
another program, just thought i should mention it here anyway.


Thanks

Glenn