On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:33:30 +0200 Miklos Vajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Easier maybe, but a working installer is a working installer. > > 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. I'll give it a try, then. > > 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. KateOS uses a modified Slackware installer. It has both dependency support and multiple CDs. > > 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. I've attempted several times to write bugfixes for it. It likes to segfault at seemingly random times, and it's not always reproduceable. > > 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. Nope, unfortunately for us folks in the US, you're not kidding :p -- Cory Burgett ~ ~ :wq _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
