On wednesday, the 23.12.2009, 08:38 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > At the risk of being challenged to produce code (Which, alas, I don't have > sufficient skill to do. Or sufficient time.) I'd design an installer as a > CLI program that reads in a fairly simple fixed script or language to do the > installation work, and have separate Curses and/or X based programs to allow > users to create the installation script interactively. I think that would > fulfil just about everybodies' requirements, from the people that want a > *shiny* graphical interface to people wanting to do automatic unattended > installs over serial lines. > > Of course, this sort of project has been attempted before, and been a > complete failure. > > Cheers, > > Matthew >
BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic backend, and (b) different frontend "plugins", e.g. a curses-frontend or a X/GTK+-frontend. This is a modular and very elegant approach (but surely difficult to implement). _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
