Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:07:06 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor 2.2.1 install nit. Message-ID: <3799.861246426@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:09:55 %2B0200." <19970416220955.BA54744@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> I simply don't trust him that it will ever happen. Are you trying to goad me into something here, Joerg? :-) Yes, it has taken two years, but be fair - much of my "install hacking" time has also gone into improving sysinstall so that it was at least more reasonably usable. I really would have liked to have tossed it 1 year and 11 months ago, but that would have been Highly Impractical for the users and so I took a route that was less pleasant for me but, IMO, better for FreeBSD. It also took us until just 1 month ago to find a "CUI" kit that we could actually use (libdialog is a big part of why sysinstall has the inferior interface it has). That kit is TurboVision, and I'm right now in the middle of brushing up my C++ so that I can actually use it. Yes, I hate C++ and I avoid it whenever possible (hence the longer-than-usual start time on this) but I'm going to have to swallow the rising bile and simply Do It since there's really nothing else available. Also, heh heh, help is *always* appreciated with the new sysinstall. Attempting to do it alone is another good reason for its long delay. Jordan
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