On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Peer Schaefer <peer.schae...@hamburg.de>wrote:
> 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. > > 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). > > This is similar to how the BSD Installer project is organised: a non-GUI backend with various Text, GUI, and web frontends available. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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"
