From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 23:10:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93DCB8E for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 23:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (wmauth3.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80AA8250 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 23:10:35 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) id <0MNH00F00951AL00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 17:10:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-3, Version=6.0.2.2308539, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.5.27.220028, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-69-84.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.69.84]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MNH000AY9LB1X20@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Mon, 27 May 2013 17:10:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <51A3D9CF.4070509@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:10:23 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130410 Thunderbird/17.0.5 To: Bruce Cran 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> <51A3CEB6.3070200@cran.org.uk> In-reply-to: <51A3CEB6.3070200@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein 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 23:10:35 -0000 On 05/27/13 16:23, Bruce Cran wrote: > 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. > I'd point out that bsdinstall does have a scripting interface now as well. -Nathan