[Parted-edge] Re: [parted-devel] Deprecate ped[register|unregister]_disk_type

[Debarshi Ray]

>> To wake up the programmer using libparted, do you still want to use
>> ped_exception_throw to display an exception of type INFORMATION, or
>> want to use something different?

> The exception will disturb the user in a way that is not
> acceptable.  We want to wake up the programmer, not the user, and this
> is best done at compile time.

If the distribution has a copy of libparted compiled with
-DDEPRECATED_20, then how will we alert the user of the library if he
is using the deprecated functions? I am not an expert with
Autoconf/Automake, so does it have something to do with them?

Happy hacking,
Debarshi
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