Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:52:06 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <201112290952.06834.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFA7FD4.10600@freebsd.org> References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <4EFA1C9C.60601@FreeBSD.org> <4EFA7FD4.10600@freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:32:52 pm Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 12/28/11 06:29, Doug Barton wrote: > > On 12/27/2011 03:48, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > >> On the topic of Doug's actual question, I see minimal sense in > >> resurrecting sysinstall in head now. I would suggest it be done much > >> closer to (say, 6 months before) the 10.0 release cycle, if no suitable > >> post-installation configuration tool has materialised. > > > > My concern about that approach is that 9.0 hasn't even been released yet > > and we've already seen changes that are going to make it hard to > > resurrect sysinstall if that's the decision we come to. Waiting another > > year or 2 would make it impossible. > > Which changes are you referring to? I would have thought a reverse merge > to undo the deletion of the sysinstall and old libdialog sources would > be very minimal work. We'd also probably need a few extra build system > changes to make sure old libdialog is perhaps statically compiled into > sysinstall as it would be the only in-tree consumer, but that's not hard > either. I may be lacking some imagination, but don't really see why it > would become harder the longer we wait. I think Doug is worried that the list will just get longer, and I agree. Bits rot faster once they aren't part of the build. It is easy to delete sysinstall or trim it, it is not easy to resurrect it. Personally, the one time I used bsdinstall recently I found it to be a bit uneven, and not really a step forward for a new user compared to the "standard" install mode of sysinstall. It's biggest win is it's ability to do more disk configurations, but it seemed less user-friendly in almost every other regard (and even the disk editor seemd less user-friendly even if it had more functionality). -- John Baldwin
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