Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:22:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drawing graphics on terminal Message-ID: <20030618151939.U80347@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <96EF329E-A1C1-11D7-AE42-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> References: <96EF329E-A1C1-11D7-AE42-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com>
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> The principal problem with libh is too many chiefs and not enough > indians. Poor Alex and Max have done a HUGE amount of work on the > system but it's large enough in scope that 2 people cannot hope to do it > all by themselves, particularly when there's no relief shift to take > things over when they get tired occasionally. From an architectural > perspective, there's nothing which would stop libh from fulfilling all > the dreams I've seen laid out here (and a number people haven't even > mentioned yet, like scriptable installs or alternate look-and-feels). > The principle thing standing in the way of this and every other "let's > get rid of sysinstall" effort, for that matter, is a lack of engineers. > > This one's a bit like government. Everyone has an opinion about how it > should work or what it could be doing better, but very few people want > to actually get involved in changing it. :-) > What needs done right now? I havn't seen much on libh recently... where is the source at? How can I get a look at it, and a list of what needs done so I can help. Just today at work, a friend of mine asked me how to install FreeBSD. He had tried it and had no luck whatsoever, so I had to walk him through it step-by-step. This would go a long way towards making an install process that could, for example, give the user the option of a "newbie install" which would be all graphical and pretty with X and what-not, and a "experienced install" which would bascially be the same installer we have now, only written on top of libh. Anyway, I'm interested in helping, I have 2 or 3 nights a week where I could write some code after work. Ken
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