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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200 > Nakal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >=20 > > Hi, > >=20 > > recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been=20 > > looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the=20 > > terminal. >=20 > See /usr/share/examples/libvgl >=20 > > I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here,=20 > > if it is possible to do that. What I want to do is to port my=20 > > applications from Linux-framebuffer to FreeBSD, but I am also thinking= =20 > > about making a graphical installer for FreeBSD (eye-candy is always=20 > > nice to attract new users). >=20 > I've been thinking about that too. The big question I have is whether > it's a good idea to use a toolkit with a more restrictive license > (GPL, LGPL, MPL), which would make it a lot easier, or come up with > something that could be licensed under the BSD license. I know that > FreeBSD has used the GPL'd libdialog in sysinstall for quite some > time without problems, but maybe it is time to start thinking about > something that is free in the BSD license sense. >=20 Well, the important thing is, that you have a core lib that provides all the functionality of the installer. A thing which linux in 2.5.x has already done and the libh project for FreeBSD aimed for. If you have a BSD licenced core-lib, the interface is fairly easy and can be easily replaced. So IMHO, the actual toolkit is not that important. > I don't think the advantage of a GUI-based installer would be > "eye-candy". libdialog looks fine IMO. It would be to increase the > ease of use, allow more flexibility in installations, and add more > troubleshooting/diagnostic options (disabling/enabling/loading > device drivers, etc.) The problem is not libdialog, but that sysinstall is not easy to enhance. It was never meant to stick around for such a long time :-) - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --eRtJSFbw+EEWtPj3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+7laGbHYXjKDtmC0RAqQDAKDywZzE74+YNi6OMpOABYDfePW/GACdF5lc pfTeAXNNtgsxKJy+/6Lwvbw= =5jJl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eRtJSFbw+EEWtPj3--
