On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:54:36PM -0400, Cory Burgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO GUI installers are unnecessary.
For you. It may be useful for others. > However, I think the current installer is very buggy. Patches welcome. Please remember that this is a developer list, not a bugtracker. ;-) > Moreover, I think some scripting language would be more suited for > implementing an installer, given that the installation is largely a > batch job anyway. Please do a 0.3 netinstall which comes with the shellscript one. It was horrible slow. > Shell (mostly bash) installers have worked -- and continue to work -- > very well for many distros for a long time (Slackware and Arch, for > example, among others). Slackware does not have dependency support, Arch does not have support for multiple CDs. We do both, and doing it in shell is a nighmare. > The C installer is much larger and more complicated than an installer needs > to be, and while it appears to be well designed, it is unnecessarily > complex and therefore bug-prone and difficult to maintain. Please don't estimate how hard is to maintain till you haven't walked in our shoes. > Just my two cents (increasingly valuable thanks to gasoline prices). And decreasingly valuable to who lives outside the US. ;-/ OK, just kidding; but the part about "our installer is more complex than writing it in shell" still remains, IMHO.
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