The interns from Colorado School of Mines have posted information from
yesterday's meeting and an overview of the text-based installer project at
http://installzone-wiki.central.sun.com/wiki/index.php/CSMInternResources.
Also, after listening to all of the advice and ways to take this project
from the meeting today we have determined a different approach would
probably be better. Since we initially did not anticipate how to connect
Dialog to the installer code, specifically liborchestrator, we feel like
using this implementation will result in a much more roundabout method in
order to achieve the goals we're seeking. Specifically:
* Interaction with liborchestrator will require some intermediate steps
between bash and C which will introduce a new level of complexity on top of
the project
* This additional complexity would also leave the system prone to
breaking more easily than a single self contained C program.
* We also believe that using this approach would make the text installer
easier to implement for SPARC systems in the future, because Dialog would
not need to be added into the repositories.
* Further, we can reproduce Frank's mock ups to a closer degree.
* Learning how exactly to tweak Dialog to obtain just the right type of
interface could take just as long as programming up a near perfect
representation in ncurses.
We now think it would probably be better to just use a straight ncurses
implementation of the text based installer.
Thea, Danny, Ryan, Mark
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