Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:47:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <20034.880958826@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:43:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130223423.17886A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> What about making some of the basic sysinstall (or whatver) functions into > a shared library, rpm and librpm come to mind. That way a command line > based installer could add its own menu on top of that, and a GUI one could > add it's own thing on top of that. Plus, it would have an advantage of > seperating the UI and "low-level" stuff somewhat, so that bugs in one, > wouldn't necesarily force a re-compilation of the other. You can break this problem at any number of points, be it front-end/back-end, producer/consumer or message based with the UI running as a separate process. :-) However you choose to handle the complexity of multi-UI installer, it's not something you can just bang together in a weekend and that's the real problem. Conceptual models we have *plenty* of. The time to execute them, almost *none* of. :-( Jordan
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