Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:58:25 -0500 From: <dashevil@sympatico.ca> To: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: Installation - More user friendly Message-ID: <20040309005825.PFTN1538.tomts44-srv.bellnexxia.net@smtp.bellnexxia.net>
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> > From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> > Date: 2004/03/08 Mon PM 03:42:01 EST > To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> > CC: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly > > On Monday 08 March 2004 12:15 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Now this I think will be a very productive way forward. It's much > > easier to write a program to do one particular thing well, and > > integrate it into a collection of similar programs, than it is to > > throw away everything and rewrite the whole lot from scratch. > > Problem is, sysinstall isn't really set up for piecemeal replacement, > > and while sysinstall may have been the canonical 'throwaway hack > > pressed into production' actually throwing it away means there has to > > be a complete full-featured replacement ready to slot in instead. > > While sysinstall itself isn't suitable for piecemeal replacement, the > idea behind it is. Consider the Slackware installer. It essentially is > a series of shell scripts throwing up dialog screens. (well it does > assume that you've already partitioned the harddrive, but that's > another story). > > sysinstall tries to do too much. You can split up its functionality into > separate utilities and not lose a thing. Of course you would need to > get all of these utilities completed before you could replace it. But > these utilities would be useful in and of themselves in the meantime. > > David I agree with you very strongly here. I also think each tool should be built as a library core, UI independant (like gaim). That way we could make GUI tools that manipulate just about every aspect of the system without having to rewrite too much code. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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