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

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 08:33:52AM +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 07:47:00AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:

>  > 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.

This does, however, have all the risks of building yet another SMIT or
SAM. :-( Neither attempt at making Unix sysadm 'user-friendly' makes
me want to cheer.

And: how many people would volunteer for such a job?
Or is it assumed that since this appears suspiciously like Real Work
it will be a paid-for job?

-- 
Wilko Bulte             Arnhem, The Netherlands   - The FreeBSD Project 
                        WWW : http://www.tcja.nl  http://www.freebsd.org


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