Hello,
Miklos Vajna wrote:
No problem, but your ^Ms are really annoying, sorry. Could you please
somehow get rid of them? ;-)
Sorry, I don't see "^M" in my mail but I doesn't use my webmail this
time. Is it better?
Hmm, I can't see it at http://bugs.frugalware.org/?do=roadmap
Having a graphical installer for 1.0 is not a must IMHO, but it would
be nice. Any contribution in this area are welcome.
I see it in :
http://frugalware.org/pipermail/frugalware-devel/2008-March/004656.html.
I do it for fun because I like frugalware but not the curses installer :p
Never underestimate a man before you walked in his shoes. ;-)
Writing an installer is always tricky. Though yes, probably it's
easier than adding graphical support to the current setup.
Agree. In fact I wanted to said : This is more easier than the next
solution i propose. :)
I'm not too familiar with the topic, but I guess the best would be to
use a vesa X server, that is really supported by all video cards
except a very few.
It's a solution. But i think that framebuffer used with vesa drivers is
more "lighter" and supports as many video cards as a X server (i'm not
sure).
Given that you do it as a hobby I can't say who do you spend your free
time ;-) , but I would suggest first doing the "Ubuntu-like" (so a
normal program, that can be started from fwlive) one, so that you
don't have to face with problems like the lack of the X server and such.
So, I do GTK installer with X first ;-) .
What you can think of that you can modify the existing setup to
support GTK or you can do it from scratch. I'm not sure which one is
the better.
Both are possible but I like structure of existing setup (with dynamics
plugins, etc).
The current setup uses curses and at the beginning, there are some
code parts like:
#ifdef DIALOG
foo
#else // GTK
bar
#endif
where the code is dialog-specific, but given that the GTK part was
never really worked, most of the code uses dialog calls unconditionally.
I see that. I think that just add code in existing setup to support gtk
make it a little bit "dirty". I prefer to keep structure and re-use a
maximum of your code but rewrite it from beginning. Maybe it's more
"cleaner".
So it's up to you. If you do it from scratch, you can even do it in an
other language if you want; since other interpreters like Python or
Perl are on the livecd as well already.
No , C is my favourite language! ;-)
Thanks
Elentir
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