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
