Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

[John Baldwin]

On 14-Dec-99 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.

 [ snip ]

> 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).

Many people use sysinstall to do post-install configuration of their system,
and the seperate X interface (probably a seperate program) would be targeted at
this task.

> Peter

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