From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 26 02:51:18 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B6B369; Sun, 26 May 2013 02:51:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from superbisquit@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f45.google.com (mail-oa0-f45.google.com [209.85.219.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B9A3DC; Sun, 26 May 2013 02:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id j6so7547044oag.4 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XIUnXez8Nvi+sGe/mrRXD9SyKCgMVjuuwcV4+kJSCR4=; b=e6ITqgfCIrKBdBlCStnZos2yREBzPRQUR+GoCksS/G7zajMV+sxWNhuNUtjKU8yo7p I6GK50zQ2acqeYeTfgsb5+hsUHkYIXbYLq1e0N7ixHkTHZuxajYbJTSeaBc+YAd8mfdI hnt6lfDM/Fw5E+V5WatyYrjsG1OTLD8obeM61YKcE0i2PY9xkB+V8fb3/1Gb+mDzmpBO w59pa4HAJ9waOyuxfizR1TteWNJ+xmFhinbPlCaz7xlYdXujckOQit8Hveia/YtwD4ID V78LTi26MPMRaXIensg7Rhrvk0UCKZ4L5PL+cCgQ0cVs5P7CJUBrt7LLwqqQuSJv1BSd EJSQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.134.204 with SMTP id pm12mr15828373oeb.67.1369536676096; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.53.231 with HTTP; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51A15EDF.6050600@erdgeist.org> References: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> <51A1025A.2020607@cran.org.uk> <51A14445.4060305@freebsd.org> <51A15EDF.6050600@erdgeist.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 22:51:16 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction From: Super Bisquit To: Dirk Engling Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , Nathan Whitehorn X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 02:51:18 -0000 Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is i386 & AMD64 only. On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling wrote: > On 26.05.13 01:07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any movement there (on either side of the table). I'd > > personally be very suspicious of an all-sh(1) future -- by far the > > cleanest parts of bsdinstall are in C -- and this is especially true for > > interacting with geom. That said, since I've lost nearly all of my free > > time and ability to work on bsdinstall, I won't get in the way of anyone > > else working on things > > As discussed at BSDCan, I'd be willing to participate in the development > and at least implement setting up zpools/zfs and geli/gbde providers. I > have done similar things in sh in my ezjail tools and think I can glue > the rest together. > > Scanning through the pc-sysinstall code, I find nothing too fancy there > regarding either interaction with zfs nor geom tools. I do not think it > is necessary as a back end just for these features. > > Nathan, is there any design rationale available for the scripts, e.g. on > why you chose sh versus C and were you provided with some kind of wish > list/requirements in the first place? Any particular mail thread to scan > through beforehand? > > Regards, > > erdgeist > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >