Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:37:28 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. Message-ID: <199511270037.QAA00537@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 1995 20:09:08 PST." <199511270409.UAA19883@ref.tfs.com>
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Gosh, we are moving forward 8)
BTW: exmh has a cool installation procedure someone can take a look.
Yes, I know that it is probably not a one to one match to an OS installation
however the overall general procedure is cool.
Amancio
>>> Julian Elischer said:
> >
> > Hmm. Two days ago you were saying "it can't be done!" (or for the
> > australians here, "we'll all be rooned!"), wrt. leap to X. Has this
> > changed your mind? (I'm being optomistic here 8)
> ok Hanrahan, don't get too excited..
> >
> > > Can we re-open the traditional (heh heh) dialog on this topic?
> there was movement at the station for the word had got around.....
> >
> >
> > > 2. I think we need to sit down and devise a list of tcl commands,
> I think that an install disk with a single executable
> linked with tclX, should be able to do all the installation :)
>
> have builtin tcl scripts for all the usual commands..
> (add tk when a server is found :)
>
>
> > > in their own little library and name space, for doing all the sorts
> > > of things that one might want to do to files on the system in the
> > > process of "installing packages." Maybe we'll find that existing
> > > TCL or TCLX primitives require just a few more additions to make
> > > for a completely robust package building environment, I dunno.
> > > We'll just have to look and see.
> >
> > Ok, I'm sold on TCL. I know it's not perfect, but it's a _common_ languag
e,
> > so the available programmer-base is much larger. Can we win the war to ge
t
> > tcl into the base distribution? 8) This "devision" should go well with
> > John's recent post wrt. the 16-step plan to a tighter installation.
>
> >
>
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