Re: fdisk

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:14:05AM -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> >   Do you think it can go in trunk soon?
> Currently it is not totally ready, we are still working on some of the little 
> things,
> like error messages and some other large work like creating gfdisk along
> with it, this will provide all the services of libparted, while fdisk
> will only provided the classical fdisk interface.  I have been kinda
> obsolete for the past few months, because I have been very busy with
> school.  On May 16 I will be working on fdisk everyday from then till
> the end of summer.  So I hope to have a first release ready by the end
> of summer.  
> 
> > Otherwise, perhaps we could add it to the Debian package.  Do you think it's
> > in good shape for that?
> No currently.
> 
> Would you or anyone else on your project like to help? :)

I'm afraid I don't have time to help actively (other than testing it).  However,
if you need a platform for beta-testing, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a good place:
Because the "classical" util-linux fdisk is not available, any replacement is
welcome, even if it's not a mature, well-tested one.

I suppose you could put it in trunk, but disable it by default?  If one could
build it using --enable-fdisk-ui or something, then the Debian package could be
selective and activate it for this platform.

What do you think about that?

-- 
Robert Millan