From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 14:28:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C83C15353 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:28:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22682; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:28:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912142228.RAA22682@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:28:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Donn Miller Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Dec-99 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 1999-Dec-14 18:36:04 +1100, Donn Miller wrote: >>As far as the successor to sysinstall goes, I think it would be >>nice to have both a console version and an X version, with some X >>tookit such as Lesstif or Qt, or Tcl/Tk. > > I know Jordan mentioned Qt before his over-enthusiastic hand-waving > made him over-balance, but Lesstif and Qt (or anything else related to > X11) have a number of serious problems. [ snip ] > Given the primary mission of sysinstall is to load FreeBSD, I'd > go so far as to say that developing an X version would be wasting > valuable developer resources (IMHO, of course). Many people use sysinstall to do post-install configuration of their system, and the seperate X interface (probably a seperate program) would be targeted at this task. > Peter -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message