On 05/27/13 20:40, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On 5/27/13 2:23 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 27/05/2013 21:28, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On 5/27/13 11:40 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
Yes.
Is this a joke?
It probably /was/ too short a reply. Personally I think there should
be a single UI and scripting interface across all platforms. We
should try and get pc-sysinstall running on all of them first in case
there's some problem that means it can't be done, in which case we'd
need to use a different backend.
There are just going to be certain platforms that make it EASY to do
cool things. We should embrace that! That's why there are different
platforms!
Some are great for low power, others are great for graphics, cpu
power, gpu, networking etc.
If we always go for the lowest common denominator then we are
crippling all the platforms for no one's benefit. Even if something
CAN be done, if it is very difficult, or just never happening, then we
can't limit everyone's experience based on the more difficult and/or
resource strapped platforms.
It's just not good business.
Yes, and all of this cuts both ways: pc-sysinstall has no wireless setup
support, for instance. Right now we support what we support because it
is the most feature-complete thing we have, not just on tier-2 platforms
but also on x86.
To bring this discussion back to the ground, the fact is that we lack an
installer that has both internal support for ZFS and a UI. One of the
reasons for this is that making a good expressive UI for ZFS is a
non-trivial undertaking given its enormous flexibility. The bsdinstall
partition editor has been written to be extensible for this, and several
people have started writing code to do it, but no one ended up having
time to finish. Probably a reasonable thing to do is to start with
supporting only a minimal set of features. If anyone felt like actually
writing this code, I'm sure it would be appreciated by all and be more
productive than email exchanges.
-Nathan
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