On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 15:07, David Campbell <davekong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-28 12:06:21 -0400: >> Hmm, and does it have a proper UI in ncurses or something? to replace >> cfdisk in aif? > > It will when cparted is proper. Whether cparted will be ported to > use libparted directly, rather than using Python bindings, is yet > to be seen. I certainly prefer writing/maintaining Python code > over C though, and I don't see any benefit to translating it into > C other than avoiding Python as a dependency. > Instead of duplicating efforts, you can try hacking on http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/ which uses libparted as backend (fdisk and cfdisk present but no sfdisk though). That project is inactive but not discontinued. >> I know about the newt-based nparted but I'm told it's badly maintained. > > As far as I could tell, nparted is dead. > -- > David Campbell > Regards. Keshav
