Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Also, bear in mind that if we'd have done that, then we would still be > > where we are right now, but would not have the debian installer ready to > > release with sarge. > > Maybe. But AFAICS there are only few developers that have worked on > both, b-f and d-i. So how would keeping b-f have damaged d-i? Maybe it > would give less motivation and so not attract enough new developers, but > from my point of view, it just has been the other way round. d-i people > took over debian-boot overnight and most previous b-f people > disappeared because of feeling beeing replaced.
Unfortunately (?!) only very few people were motivated to work on b-f to get it in proper shape for any release after potato. We may have had working b-f earlier than working d-i but that's only speculation. I believe that the chances are good that d-i was ready earlier still. Regards, Joey -- Ten years and still binary compatible. -- XFree86 Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]