On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 07:47:00AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 1999-Dec-14 18:36:04 +1100, Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >As far as the successor to sysinstall goes, I think it would be
> >nice to have both a console version and an X version, with some X
> >tookit such as Lesstif or Qt, or Tcl/Tk.
>
> I know Jordan mentioned Qt before his over-enthusiastic hand-waving
> made him over-balance, but Lesstif and Qt (or anything else related to
> X11) have a number of serious problems.
That's ok; He also said it could be back-ended by TurboVision, with
the decision of which GUI to use based on whether you had a $DISPLAY
environment variable set.
> Given the primary mission of sysinstall is to load FreeBSD, I'd
> go so far as to say that developing an X version would be wasting
> valuable developer resources (IMHO, of course).
Long-term, do we want the installer to be a program whose primary mission
is to load FreeBSD, or would we prefer a generic framework which provides
the situation where loading FreeBSD doesn't differ markedly from loading
(and configuring!) any particular package or subsystem after the initial
installation event?
I think I'll pick the latter.
- mark
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