From owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 02:51:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF3016A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta10-svc.ntlworld.com (mta10-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB68E43D39 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from witchspace.com ([81.110.67.239]) by mta10-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20040606095007.MRKU13246.mta10-svc.ntlworld.com@witchspace.com> for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:50:07 +0100 Received: (qmail 61068 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2004 09:50:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.local) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.witchspace.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2004 09:50:27 -0000 Received: from 192.168.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jon); by webmail.local with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:50:27 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3684.192.168.0.1.1086515427.squirrel@192.168.0.1> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:50:27 +0100 (BST) From: "Jonathan Belson" To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated to libh code development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:51:05 -0000 Hiya I notice that DragonFlyBSD has made some progress on their NG installer. There's some information about its design here: http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tissue/docs/dfui/dfui.html?rev=1.1&content-type=text/html and some code here: http://freebsd0.sitetronics.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tissue/ Using or building on an existing UI abstraction would save a lot of work. The Linux installers I've looked at seem to use separate code for each type of front-end (eg. console, gui), but having a common API would have advantages. The only other abstract gui I'm aware of is PicoGUI, but it looks like the project has been abandoned by its author. Cheers, -- Jon