Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:28:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <199912142228.RAA22682@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On 14-Dec-99 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 1999-Dec-14 18:36:04 +1100, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> 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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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