On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 08:42:25PM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > the imagebuilder should support all that already and it likely fills the > "powerful desktop tools" part your concept requires. > i answered that in my other mail already.
anyway, specifically regarding the existing imagebuilder, i'm not really satisfied. it's a big download which is specific to each target, and requires pretty much a complete build environment. of course, it's the obvious choice to minimize development effort, but as a user i'd expect something ... nicer. in my understanding, sysupgrade images (and uimages) are a pretty uniform archive format, just like the feed packages are. that means that a single generic tool should be able to work with all targets, over extended periods of time, and would need to support a rather limited number of features to accomplish the goal of building images from the "regular" image+package downloads that are already available. > Given the recent advances with Linux support on Windows 10 plus Docker > etc. it shouldn't be too hard to bundle an ImageBuilder with some > Desktop ui and an RPC client to remote-control the router via SSH or > HTTPS-UBUS-RPC. > that's way too new-fangled for my taste. :D a simple desktop application (built with the cross-platform toolkit of the developer's choice) would do just fine. all the steps that deal with the archives can be handled in-process by linked libraries (most of the code is already librarized). offer three pre-built binaries for the major desktops. "regular" linux distros would package it for you as well. of course, over time the scope of that application could be extended into a generic openwrt installer which can actually flash uboot and everything on top. that would actually provide significant added value over the purely on-device update mechanism proposed in the other thread, and could potentially significantly increase the user base of openwrt. a different aspect would be developing it into a complete desktop-based "luci" (basically an extended version of the initial idea of this thread), but that seems kinda unreasonable to me. > Do you plan to work on something like that? > given current realities of the size of my todo list and available spare time, the best i can hope for is to inspire Someone Else (TM) to pick up some of my ideas ... _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
