Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:06:33 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly Message-ID: <20040308160633.41200f9b@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <200403081120.01163.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <20040307205710.35302.qmail@web41207.mail.yahoo.com> <200403081120.01163.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:20:01 -0800 Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote: > On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:57 pm, Donald Turnbull wrote: > > > Plans exist aplenty. Talk is cheap. See, for instance the libh > > project stuff -- http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html -- > > which was a nice idea in many ways but has entirely failed to > > produce any results for about the last two years. What is missing > > are concrete pieces of code: applications that work. If you think > > you can do better than what we have presently, you are very > > welcome to submit samples of works in progress. > > I think libh died because of me. I joined the list, and my "let me > introduce myself" post was the last message ever on their mailing > list. Maybe it's my deodorant :-( > > Seriously, I think the problem with libh was that it tried to do too > > much. I was to be a new package manager, sysinstall and GUI toolkit > all wrapped up into one library. There was just too much stuff to > get working correctly in the foundation before anyone could start > working on the actually functionality. And the fact that you had to > keep around old incompatible ports like qt2-static didn't help. > > What needs to be done is to go back to the UNIX way of doing things, > and divide up the problem into a set of small tools each doing one > thing very well. Then "sysinstall" would merely be a shell script > combining the parts into a whole. I'm actually starting on one small > piece of this. Contact me off list if you're interested. /me is curious So what is it? :)
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