From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 00:55:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91A5106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:55:15 +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 69D788FC13 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91449E622F; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:55:14 +0000 (GMT) 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=ZEw7rNKbwz98 2EBLr/f1pVUx1bA=; b=dapxlTAnm7L121y6FRqwohYZVOmpHlbrsSdAwf6cuSfb lkQxKB71yKgYZqY2EeOrrO5T+vjP4rEc9sj2P2SoQZNhx01wF6o1BWYOx/awm8WR HhSi5qfNC2iWHbKcOHsHLTg3uvUEapc91BQAANvWQJ9XX7N7Om/3YAP/Vl3CpjA= 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=wk035j LdMUvH9z4il9J9Q+0z3XYIPWEOAlLhRi9puDO2VZ1uyrvZy6vvDf88zCvM2fnQQB GPE2/z5w3i4bew0ndIj88GkMp9w921gzIRbiSXLiqdMH0oV6L6zrbIEYYSS+mzKL eKKZgEBCOcYxDgCyoh4iYn74VjbXgXLFncESI= Received: from [192.168.1.66] (188-220-36-32.zone11.bethere.co.uk [188.220.36.32]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52E65E620E; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:55:14 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4F03A36E.3000901@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:55:10 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eitan Adler References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:55:15 -0000 On 03/01/2012 23:33, Eitan Adler wrote: > - Restore sysinstall and libodialog > - Statically link libodialog and make it specific to sysinstall > A rewrite of sysinstall to use libdialog is not worth it. It would > be better to just write a new configuration tool at that point. > - Remove front end non-configure facing features (ie "upgrade" and > installation options) > - Remove scripting support from sysinstall > > Additionally I would agree to > - Ensure that sysinstall continues to function as time goes on > - Review and test patches to sysinstall > > What I am not agreeing to: > - Rewrite sysinstall > - Make a new tool Please don't remove the install and upgrade functionality - I'm willing to put time into fixing any issues, and adding support for ZFS etc. once it's restored. I'd like to see sysinstall refactored into something more manageable and converted into a YAST-like tool because I don't think bsdinstall is anywhere near the experience we want for a technical OS like FreeBSD - we're not, and shouldn't aim to be IMO, the Ubuntu of the BSDs. -- Bruce Cran