Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:17:20 +0100 (BST) From: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com> To: "David Johnson" <david@usermode.org> Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer Message-ID: <1844.192.168.0.1.1086873440.squirrel@192.168.0.1> In-Reply-To: <200406061827.53216.david@usermode.org> References: <3684.192.168.0.1.1086515427.squirrel@192.168.0.1> <200406061827.53216.david@usermode.org>
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> On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:50 am, Jonathan Belson wrote: > Reading through the page, this general design is straight forward, but > the specifics are dependent upon DragonFly's libcaps, which FreeBSD > does not have. So this doesn't look like something we can grab "as is" > from DragonFly, without first importing libcaps and its messaging > model. The other possibility is porting it to use a native interface. > I've been thinking about this for quite some time, and tried to rough > out some designs. The hardest thing to write is this generic UI > abstraction. The fact that no one has done it successfully before means PicoGUI (which I mentioned in my original e-mail) appears to have a number of video drivers, including one for ncurses. I don't have a linux installation handy to test it with so I don't know how generic it is. Interesting project though. Cheers, -- Jon
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