From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 16:56:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2238EF1 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B9CE5D for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03F9E6A40; Mon, 27 May 2013 17:56:28 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=HiJN35mrkSsB Pt5TVMJ3IVDlZlw=; b=s6e8Hut8Xk/de9v/9u6PRG/fBJ5Wg75tJPRTrQSaWet/ 5owjGqhJDZcEbKgOCRfbENgLibiiA/9AahEm4sdDFAqijsju16t8pY8gc529gKC/ JHtAAiziTPnox/HjeLeibnghoA26AJ0X9edORSE9r644TWNN2HsFHJnXYpIYAJw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=NuHVcV 2VutpKTKurBcouEJ5+j1MZt0a7HHi+e3ySwK59Yx0eAB8Zsh/K5/Vr74AnL70dYQ p9K4IADfHkmtSAVbmLXEofO/PH1oMA7wlMDsaizcI4/y2cUK9AKUTH4UaA3LcGuL +7V0B1GifK17tAND+esDbnUMiuCbbyPbiNWAQ= Received: from [IPv6:2a01:348:301:2:ccf1:925a:43f8:4bbc] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:301:2:ccf1:925a:43f8:4bbc]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7E9B2E6A3D; Mon, 27 May 2013 17:56:28 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <51A39039.1070202@cran.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:56:25 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction References: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> <51A1025A.2020607@cran.org.uk> <51A14445.4060305@freebsd.org> <51A15EDF.6050600@erdgeist.org> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F5B337@ltcfiswmsgmb26> <51A38051.8040909@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <51A38051.8040909@mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:56:32 -0000 On 27/05/2013 16:48, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Why can we not use in the interim use pc-sysinstall on the platforms > that it performs best on and use bsdinstall on the others? Because pc-sysinstall doesn't have a UI - it's only a backend. If we update bsdinstall to use it, then it won't work on other platforms. -- Bruce