From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 20:07:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02378 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA02373 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA03801; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:07:06 -0700 (PDT) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor 2.2.1 install nit. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:09:55 +0200." <19970416220955.BA54744@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:07:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3799.861246426@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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