Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:34:14 +0100 From: Peer Schaefer <peer.schaefer@hamburg.de> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love Message-ID: <1261571654.3837.11.camel@earth.sol> In-Reply-To: <4B31D6F9.6040608@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <541b7a870912150733m4bc34148j98790a6142d4521c@mail.gmail.com> <20091223032410.GA25393@comcast.net> <4B31D6F9.6040608@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On wednesday, the 23.12.2009, 08:38 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > At the risk of being challenged to produce code (Which, alas, I don't have > sufficient skill to do. Or sufficient time.) I'd design an installer as a > CLI program that reads in a fairly simple fixed script or language to do the > installation work, and have separate Curses and/or X based programs to allow > users to create the installation script interactively. I think that would > fulfil just about everybodies' requirements, from the people that want a > *shiny* graphical interface to people wanting to do automatic unattended > installs over serial lines. > > Of course, this sort of project has been attempted before, and been a > complete failure. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic backend, and (b) different frontend "plugins", e.g. a curses-frontend or a X/GTK+-frontend. This is a modular and very elegant approach (but surely difficult to implement).
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