Friday, December 25, 2009, 9:24:25 AM, you wrote: > I think what we're looking at here is that sysinstall should probably > be replaced... but it works well enough that it doesn't *have* to be > replaced, and most people aren't bothered enough by it to write code > to come up with something new. Certainly, having things like zfs > support in sysinstall would be nice... but most of the people using > zfs boot know the system well enough to do it from the Fixit/LiveFS > shell anyway.
> Basically... if you really want to see this change, I think you're > gonna have to do it yourself. Personally I would like to see something around the likes of shells/flash menu shell implemented with some modular scripting and drop-in binaries for other tasks that cannot be accomplished through the use of shell scripts as elegantly as they would in C. As for licensing of shells/flash I am unsure but it does bring the ease of scripting into play that can shield a user from some of the behind the scenes ugliness. Snip of the pkg-desc: Flash is an attempt to create a secure menu-driven shell for UNIX-derived OSes, while providing user-friendliness and easy configurability. An ideal situation requiring the use of flash would be a student-run telnet server which needs to: a) shelter the users from some of the nastiness of UNIX b) shelter the system from nasty users c) provide an easy way to launch applications d) support multitasking/job control as elegantly as possible e) support easy-to-get-right configuration by administrators ---- In that type of menu it would be easy to drop a script that asks: A) Would you like a GUI install menu... B) Would you like a CLI install menu... C) Get me out of here... ---- It also has a nice little notes side frame that could tell the user a little more about what is going on if they are confused about the choices that are selected. As for my self, I would be willing to contribute some bits & bytes to see this happen. As for the GUI I would be willing to write the hooks for it in the menu system but that is as far as I am willing to go with it. I don't see any satisfactory need or gain in GUI for just-a-installer. Best regards. -- Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:59:02 PM jhell _______________________________________________ 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"
