On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Kenneth Culver wrote:
The principal problem with libh is too many chiefs and not enoughWhat needs done right now? I havn't seen much on libh recently... where is
indians. Poor Alex and Max have done a HUGE amount of work on the
system but it's large enough in scope that 2 people cannot hope to do it
all by themselves, particularly when there's no relief shift to take
things over when they get tired occasionally. From an architectural
perspective, there's nothing which would stop libh from fulfilling all
the dreams I've seen laid out here (and a number people haven't even
mentioned yet, like scriptable installs or alternate look-and-feels).
The principle thing standing in the way of this and every other "let's
get rid of sysinstall" effort, for that matter, is a lack of engineers.
This one's a bit like government. Everyone has an opinion about how it
should work or what it could be doing better, but very few people want
to actually get involved in changing it. :-)
the source at? How can I get a look at it, and a list of what needs done
so I can help. Just today at work, a friend of mine asked me how to
install FreeBSD. He had tried it and had no luck whatsoever, so I had to
walk him through it step-by-step. This would go a long way towards making
an install process that could, for example, give the user the option of a
"newbie install" which would be all graphical and pretty with X and
what-not, and a "experienced install" which would bascially be the same
installer we have now, only written on top of libh. Anyway, I'm interested
in helping, I have 2 or 3 nights a week where I could write some code
after work.
Ken
-- Jordan K. Hubbard Engineering Manager, BSD technology group Apple Computer
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