On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 5) graphical installer > > > > when we were at 0.1 i thought a graphical installer for 1.0 is a > > musthave. nowadays i'm not that sure. if we want it, how do we want it? > > having a so-called installer (which in fact isn't a real installer) like > > Ubuntu has? (fwlive+a pygtk or pyqt script) or do we want a real > > graphical installer like Fedora does? > > > > i think a graphical installer is more like the later, but that's more > > complicated and i'm not too motivated to code it :S > > Well you can write an graphical installer in some weeks , heh. > > The LiveCD-installer-mode can be done even using dialog :-) hehe but then > we will face some problems > because we *have* to *force* an default install. > > ( already played with something like this :-D ) IIRC I had a repo somewhere of a graphical live installer I started writing, but I don't think it actually did anything. Anyway, *IMHO* a live installer is better because then you can try it and install it if you like it without needing to download 2 ISOs (Live and Install) > > > 6) sysvinit-translations > > > > you probably remember when Alex started to work on upstart. then it > > turned out that it lacks of basic features like disabling a service. > > finally Alex resigned and nobody continued that work, so it seems we > > will still use sysvinit for a while. > > Not officially yes I did on my local tree but to be honest upstart is all > but ready. > > When I want to replace sysvinit I do *not* want to use an different init > system in > * sysvinit compat * mode at all. > > In sort as long upstrat does _not_ have any stable formats etc we should > not even think about to use it. > Upstart 0.5 will definitely have the proper support necessary to fully replace sysvinit, e.g. ability to disable services, proper dependencies, etc. I don't think it will be ready in time for 0.9 though. Thanks, Alex (Ugh, GMail sent it off list even though I said "Reply to all")
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