Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi All, So there seems to some consensus over things. Here's what I conclude: - We setup a Wiki (Trac, At Alioth hopefully!) and put in all this information about our plans for 2.0 there. - Assign a loose set of roles for all those interested in the project. As of now; it seems the most

Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if we really need this, and whether a shell-based interface wouldn't be easier _and_ appeal to a larger audience. pyparted is in use by every distribution that uses anaconda (that includes Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Yellowdog, rPath, and the list

Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
rohit hooda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regarding the VFS layer...if we write it to where new filesystems can be easily added, we can then pick and choose which ones we want to use external libraries for and which ones we just keep our code for. I would like to work on this ... i.e. for

Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was also thinking about having multiple language bindings to libparted. My thinking was triggered by the libparted++ project [1][2]. Since Python is a language I have started using from a few months back, I am also interested in the Python bindings

Re: [parted-devel] print all --list

2006-12-09 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:35:56AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Leslie, I hope I am correct. :-) I think you are correct here. Does someone see this differently? Everything's alright with that. -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/

Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Iff it doesn't use that kinda of framework I'm not favoured to merge it. I differ on that opinion. libparted is a system-level library and does not deserve to use SWIG at all. The only real way to write python bindings for something like libparted

Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Anant Narayanan
Hi Otavio, Anant, I just don't see why is bad to use something to make our work easier? I do agree SWIG makes our job easier, but its just too huge a dependency for something low-level like libparted. The bottomline is I am not comfortable with using a third-party tool to generate code for us.

Re: [parted-devel] Unavailable until Monday

2006-12-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
An IRC meeting is the next big step. I saw tomorrow at noon being a candidate. No can do. I'm away for the next two days. Can we postpone the meeting until then? I'd like the first meeting to be all of us talking together. Sunday will be difficult for me too. Anyday next week will be good

[parted-devel] Deprecate ped[register|unregister]_disk_type

2006-12-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
Here is a patch to deprecate ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favour of ped_disk_type_[register|unregister]. I did this since almost all the functions in libparted have ped_filename as a prefix, which was not the case here. The older functions are still there and they throw an exception of

Re: [parted-devel] Deprecate ped[register|unregister]_disk_type

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a patch to deprecate ped_[register|unregister]_disk_type in favour of ped_disk_type_[register|unregister]. I did this since almost all the functions in libparted have ped_filename as a prefix, which was not the case here. The older functions

Re: [parted-devel] Call for organization

2006-12-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
David, a link to pyparted sources would be helpful. How did you go about doing the one-to-one mapping? http://people.redhat.com/dcantrel/pyparted/ Regards, Debarshi -- Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little in with them, and the seniors take none away, so

[parted-devel] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to '4005d75a05b7d043c285479f73fbb9cecfd92b70'

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
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[parted-devel] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to '4005d75a05b7d043c285479f73fbb9cecfd92b70'

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
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[parted-devel] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to 'stable-1.8.x'

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
New branch 'stable-1.8.x' available with the following commits: commit 4005d75a05b7d043c285479f73fbb9cecfd92b70 Author: Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Dec 8 00:51:06 2006 +0530 Zero sized device is shown as 0.00B and not -0.00kB. commit 53195acd3d8ce1af9188a68a179955cf8e35a938

[parted-devel] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to 'stable-1.8.x'

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
scripts/release/tarball_upload.sh |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) New commits: commit c6df442f83ceaeeddf0121a28a3c9bd3b91c666d Author: Leslie P. Polzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat Dec 9 10:51:43 2006 +0100 Release script: cannot call return from top level;

Re: [parted-devel] Deprecate ped[register|unregister]_disk_type

2006-12-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
Distribution vendors then only have to add a -DDEPRECATED_20 to the build of the package to fix it for the time being, and the author of the package is woken up and incited to fix his stuff :) To wake up the programmer using libparted, do you still want to use ped_exception_throw to display an