From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 0:16: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CCE154A1 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA51851; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:15:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Donn Miller , Eric Jones , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:37:14 CST." <19991214173714.W868@holly.calldei.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:15:46 -0800 Message-ID: <51847.945245746@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is Qt going to be put into the base system in this case? If > I can wrestle along with figuring out a few little problems with > Qt (ones that I could even somehow more easily solve with > Motif!), then I'll continue to develop my system administration > tool(s) with it. No, I don't envision that Qt would go into the system at any point, in fact. I figure that the minimal infrastructure support to make setup and new package_install work will be part of FreeBSD (e.g. tcl and turbovision would probably replace at least libdialog) and then Qt will be an optional component. As previously mentioned, I'd intend the default setup to be dynamically linked and just dlopen() the Qt library if a suitable DISPLAY and the Qt libraries could be found. Otherwise, it would fall back to Turbovison. Since the floppy version needs to be linked static, that would support only the CUI interface. That said, one of the installer options will be to chain to a more capable installer if the media for same (and all of its dependencies) can be found. So you could use the CUI version only long enough to select "Desktop install" and then the whole VGA16 X server dance would begin, culminating in the execution of a Qt-capable version of setup. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message