From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 15 15: 1:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA1E37BC50 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA61450; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Gary Kline , Antonio Bemfica , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall cannot find any disks ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:41:05 +0200." <20000815234105.A26082@freebie.demon.nl> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:00:21 -0700 Message-ID: <61447.966376821@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Better be quick or it will be adopted by an Amnesty activist group.. ;-) > In other words: I meet an increasing number of people who use sysinstall > for all sorts of stuff and love it. I'm sure the functionality it provides is appreciated and the desire to provide such functionality is why I wrote it. Nonetheless, the entire design and implementation of sysinstall and its satellite binaries is far too simplistic and non-extensible given that what people have been using since April of 1995 is nothing more than a stick-and-bubblegum prototype which was never meant to live more than six months. Unfortunately, my life changed pretty radically right after that and all that wonderful uninterrupted free-time I was counting on using to go off and implement Son of Sysinstall (e.g. the real application) got eaten up by evangelical and management activities. I still occasionally dream of becoming a full-time programmer again and doing this work, but then I also dream of becoming an astronaut and moving to the international space station. :-) I think it's time for the next generation of installation hackers to take up the gauntlet, and some have already done so with the libh project. Pity they don't appear to have a web page anywhere though... - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message