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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> Have you read the requirements doc that esammer put together? It answers |
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> many/most of your questions. |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gli/gentoo_installer.txt |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gli/gli_uml.png |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gli/gli_use_case.png |
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That first doc was especially informative. I'd seen the last two, but not the first. |
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> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:16:27AM -0600 or thereabouts, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>1. I've heard that the core installer will be written in Python. Is this |
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>>true? |
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> That's the current plan, yes. |
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>>2. Whether Python or not, will real-time frontends have to be written the |
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>>same language as the core installer, |
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> No. |
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>>3. Will the core installer have plugin capabilities (e.g. user-created |
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>>configuration/installation steps), either scripted (bash) or coded (Python |
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>>or whatever)? |
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> Not sure, but I don't think it's currently planned to have a plugin |
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> interface for the back end. |
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For example, with the current CVS version of GLIS, you can create bash scripts that the |
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installer will run before or after certain steps in the install process. Even if seldom |
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used, it would be a handy (and easy to code) feature of GLI. |
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>>4. Which existing installer will the new code be based from or will this be |
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>>done completely from scratch possibly using existing concepts? |
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> from scratch. |
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>>5. Are there any plans to include X along with Qt, GTK, Tcl/Tk, etc. on the |
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>>LiveCD to allow for the creation of GUI installer frontends? |
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> haven't got that far yet. |
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>>6. What is already done? What needs to be done? What is still up in the air? |
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> See the docs. |
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>>7. How can I help? I don't know Python, but I have pretty decent bash - |
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>>only since working on GLIS frontend ;) - and Perl skills. I don't know any |
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>>Python, but I can always learn. |
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> See the docs. |
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>>8. Anything else important that I might have missed? |
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> Yes. See the docs. ;) |
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Alright, I get the point ;) |
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