Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8)

2010/4/7 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher_at_yandex.ru>:
> On 07.04.2010 21:49, Randi Harper wrote:
>>
>> Wow. This is awesome. patches? :D
>
> :)
> I'm not ready yet to publish code. I planned to announce this RFC
> a bit later, when code will be finished. But Konstantin (kib_at_) suggested
> do it before finishing.
>
>> I've been working on moving sysinstall from libdisk to libgeom, but
>> unfortunately it's a bit more complicated (redoing the way we detect
>> devices while I'm at it). I've done a lot of the heavy lifting code,
>> but I haven't even started on the GUI parts yet. I'd love to see how
>> someone else tackled doing this. I'm particularly interested in #5&
>> #7. :)
>
> Initially i wanted to only modify current sade's code to move it from
> libdisk to libgeom. But after several attempts i decided that it will be
> easier to rewrite it :)
>
>> Generally, we try to keep sysinstall's disk tools and sade in sync, so
>> I would like to work with you on this and see what we can come up
>> with. I'm not entirely sure if #2 is a viable option since we already
>> have functions in sysinstall that handle generating dialog boxes with
>> libdialog, but if it's an improvement on what's existing, bring it on.
>
> Yes, I looked at this code in sysinstall and in libdialog. Also I looked
> to another console UI libs. The main problem of using external libraries
> is that not so easy import them into base system.
>
> libdialog have several problemls too, imho.
> 1. Custom dialogs based on ComposeObj are ugly :)
> 2. It supports *only* single-byte characters. Initially I wanted to
> write code with message catalogs support. But after several tests
> I leaved this idea. Also it seems there is no catgets analog for
> wide characters.
>
> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

It's great that you want to work on this, but there are other people
working in the same area, so keeping your code to yourself for too
long makes it very likely that it will never get used.

-- randi