From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 21:23:10 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 41C69D49 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 21:23:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [93.89.92.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05996E1D for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 21:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389BCE6A40; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:23:05 +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=PGjyvj8Rkfkk V4MXJ82wXMZxtQs=; b=O1eesFmD0YkZRCKCQF4icN+CD+/Ffiuxsakpq9S/qa6x /JBvAmNhotgNX76Gj84GAbdQkVpXuBZMvodTeSipTSEA3lgXr9bXuQkAcayO0OsQ 3I+E1i7KhJUsKZv4wKaXM+uFbVHUQ0Cm3zeW8pbFsg+2Ip1JWlWDnINqI2ZxrBg= 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=cArYHa zMX93q8+JL13bpEBJBReXOztXbJ+ZL13X3LmFtoFpOV5Y5PQMeCG0y0BdV203erW JmTk01pFzGv4cuy8QeuNpf3HIkbNAg0fuUD4m/bdsQJUWlX7NVbsvRTBVaWqZ1tG PiQ8vT/btDVMRMoAbDX+LLiuGIqmAQ+TGUbEU= Received: from [192.168.2.61] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0FD30E6A01; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:23:05 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <51A3CEB6.3070200@cran.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:23:02 +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> <51A39039.1070202@cran.org.uk> <51A39FEC.5070402@mu.org> <51A3A891.5060103@cran.org.uk> <51A3C202.9030802@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <51A3C202.9030802@mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 21:23:10 -0000 On 27/05/2013 21:28, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On 5/27/13 11:40 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: >> Yes. > Is this a joke? It probably /was/ too short a reply. Personally I think there should be a single UI and scripting interface across all platforms. We should try and get pc-sysinstall running on all of them first in case there's some problem that means it can't be done, in which case we'd need to use a different backend. -- Bruce