From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 14: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A99150B9 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:04:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA05376; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:33:52 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:33:52 +1030 From: Mark Newton To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <19991215083352.B3500@internode.com.au> References: <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> X-PGP-Key: http://www.on.net/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 07:47:00AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 1999-Dec-14 18:36:04 +1100, Donn Miller wrote: > >As far as the successor to sysinstall goes, I think it would be > >nice to have both a console version and an X version, with some X > >tookit such as Lesstif or Qt, or Tcl/Tk. > > I know Jordan mentioned Qt before his over-enthusiastic hand-waving > made him over-balance, but Lesstif and Qt (or anything else related to > X11) have a number of serious problems. That's ok; He also said it could be back-ended by TurboVision, with the decision of which GUI to use based on whether you had a $DISPLAY environment variable set. > Given the primary mission of sysinstall is to load FreeBSD, I'd > go so far as to say that developing an X version would be wasting > valuable developer resources (IMHO, of course). Long-term, do we want the installer to be a program whose primary mission is to load FreeBSD, or would we prefer a generic framework which provides the situation where loading FreeBSD doesn't differ markedly from loading (and configuring!) any particular package or subsystem after the initial installation event? I think I'll pick the latter. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message