Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:42:58 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bora@wireless.stanford.edu, imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X for install (was: Re: syscons driver) Message-ID: <199601020812.SAA04044@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <7522.820569294@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 1, 96 11:54:54 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> It's a pretty basic problem. Do you want to describe only interface?
> Interface with tie-backs? Interface and behavior in the same
> description? There are arguments for all three, but I would have to
> see the proposed API (or IDL description) for a system before I could
> really comment on it.
I had a rough 8( Nothing formal though. I'll have to write it again I guess.
Basically, for those that want to jump in now, I was working loosely around
the basic functionality that a really light GUI (in this case, GEM) offered
("alerts", "[radio]buttons", "listboxes", "menus", "text boxes", etc ), and
looking at ways that the questions can be presented in a variety of
different environments.
> Perhaps the question should also be asked: "What exactly would folks
> *like* ``install script'' to look like?"
At the end of asking all the questions that it asks, the installer
should be able to dump its entire internal state in a more-or-less
human-readable form. It should also be able to reingest this form and
proceed from there; this would allow for 'template installations', which
would cover a lot of, say, 'Joe on the net's issues. 8)
> Jordan
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