From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 22 21:33:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA04524 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04513 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA00872; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:32:21 -0700 (PDT) To: Warner Losh cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:40:48 MDT." Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:32:21 -0700 Message-ID: <870.861769941@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199704211816.LAA13873@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert writes: > : > However, I wanna get something simple done for v1.0. To make Michael > : > Smith happy, I'm going to try to do this with tcl and Tk with glue > : > utilities as needed. > : > : Any chance you can seperate the UI from the actual code that does the > : work so that we aren't stuck with TCL on the install floppy? > > Of course. What kind of gui designer do you think I am? However, > just because the gui and the cli are separated, doesn't mean the cli > isn't written with TCL. I think it will be C based, but I'm not sure > right now. I'm still fighting a whole lot of issues with getting my > machines sane again. It also doesn't mean that TCL isn't going to be there for a lot of other reasons. I do *not* want to invent yet another data file format and associated parser just so that I can dynamically figure out which distributions to put in the user's menu, and TCL lends itself quite well to implementing the kind of dynamism we need to have in setup/sysinstall II. Jordan