[PATCH_ES_] New storage methods for partitioning and formatting

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 09:42 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> > If you're talking about UIs (which is what I was saying) then every
> > desktop will still need a UI to the HAL API rather then to standard
> > system() call-outs.
> 
> Which is trivial and lightweight to do - you can do it in any DBUS
> binding for pretty much any language. Also define "standard system
> call
> outs..." do you mean assuming mkfs.ext3 (version 1.39) is in sbin?
> 
> Say ext4 is released. Every desktop bit of formatting software has to
> check for the existence of /sbin/mkfs.ext4 and if it exists, then use
> the correct options (after the desktop program has made assumptions
> about what options are sane), and then if it fails, scrape the stderr
> output, try to find some common text, and try to localise it. Bad bad
> bad. 

And that was my hell (and now William Jon McCann's) of having to parse
cdrecord, mkisofs, etc. outputs for nautilus-cd-burner.

You definitely don't want to do that.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>