Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> writes: > Am 22.09.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> And last but not least: the installer exists now, which makes the >> question kinda moot IMO. :-) > > The question was more about in which direction will the project go > further: Continue to develop the current one or build on an existing > full-featured one. Following the pure tenets or attracting more users by > compromise.
This is not a binary choice. We can do both. Since the custom installer already exists and there are people who continue its development I don’t see why we should give it up. This will never be a graphical installer, though, so motivated people are very welcome to explore ways to adapt existing graphical installer frameworks so that we can use them with Guix. This is not a question of “purity”. I for one would like to be able to let people install GuixSD with a simple graphical installer. Personally, though, I don’t think that’s as urgent as making GuixSD installable via PXE in managed environments. Installation makes up only a tiny amount of the lifetime of a GuixSD system, so in my opinion the project doesn’t really need a large scale effort on this end. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
