Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:53:09 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?b?U23Dg8K4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG, Teske <dteske@vicor.com>, Randi Harper <randi@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Devin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8) Message-ID: <20100408155309.42884l21ogy7m7sw@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <86fx36up9e.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <55861270658151@web135.yandex.ru> <l2we277d6c81004071049h21670783ic4a9f419aedca272@mail.gmail.com> <4BBD68DB.7050600@yandex.ru> <201004080727.21020.bruce@cran.org.uk> <4BBD7CDC.2070505@yandex.ru> <20100408103809.13496s9i6ny03ocg@webmail.leidinger.net> <867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100408121500.13995d1eu7b9bt0k@webmail.leidinger.net> <86fx36up9e.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Quoting Dag-Erling Sm=C3=83=C2=B8rgrav <des@des.no> (from Thu, 08 Apr 2010 = =20 14:01:33 +0200): > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes: >> I think this is more complicated than to refactor the interesting part >> into a backend with an API which both tools can use. This would also >> allow someone to write a GUI program (e.g. for PC-BSD). > > There have been at least three or four attempts to do this in the past. > One of them was even fully funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. They all > failed. I was told a lot of people tried to make the WITH_CTF part working =20 without the need to use -DWITH_CTF each time at the command line and =20 failed. Nevertless I did it. So telling something is not possible =20 because other people tried and failed is ridiculous. If there is no =20 proof that it can not be done, I'm sure someone exists who is able to =20 do it. I stand by my words and still say that it is less complicated to put =20 the logic into a backend-lib. If Andrey has problems to do this, I'm =20 willing to invest some time to mentor him in this regard. BTW: I do not think you talk about a partition editor, but about the =20 complete sysinstall. This is a different beast than only the part =20 which I outlined above. Andrey has already some working stuff which =20 just needs to be refactored into frontend/backend-lib parts. Bye, Alexander. --=20 UNIX is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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