Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-13 Thread Paul Robinson
On Jul 13, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What? You don't like TCL? Well then, be finished with your effort > before the libh guys do. Good call. ;-) To me, the language choice is immaterial on the face of it. The value of the conversation was based upon some of the feature set

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Jul 12, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > perl might be superior in features at first glance but it has > > serious deficiencies in the resulting code style, due to it's nature it > > not simply enables program

Re: sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Giorgos Keramidas([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.10 05:13:44 +: > > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The base system is not registered into the packages > > > system, because of sysinstall. > > > > It's not installed from /usr

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread Paul Robinson
On Jul 12, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perl might be superior in features at first glance but it has > serious deficiencies in the resulting code style, due to it's nature it > not simply enables programmers to do bad things[tm] but almost enforces > them to do so. A slo

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Paul Robinson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.12 15:44:32 +: > On Jul 11, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > some rough and spontaneuos ideas: > > - stripped down python interpreter runs as init > > Wow. If you think about it, that's quite a big departure from where FBSD is >

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread Paul Robinson
On Jul 11, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some rough and spontaneuos ideas: > - stripped down python interpreter runs as init Wow. If you think about it, that's quite a big departure from where FBSD is at the moment (or I'm missing the point). You might find a lot more peopl

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Wed 2001-07-11 (19:02), Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > Terry Lambert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.09 13:29:23 +: > [...] > > > There are too many steps. > > > > X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package. > > > > Etc. (I could go on forever). > > > > ...then let's wrap up a concept of

Re: sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Giorgos Keramidas([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.10 05:13:44 +: > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The base system is not registered into the packages > > system, because of sysinstall. > > It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src. > I don't know if it's a good idea to

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Terry Lambert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.09 13:29:23 +: [...] > There are too many steps. > > X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package. > > Etc. (I could go on forever). > ...then let's wrap up a concept of a interpreter language driven installer. redhat does it in python since year