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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 00:16, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:03, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > I find an after-the-fact interference idea to be quite unnatural. Another
> > option would be to feed the backend two xml files which basically have
> > null actions such that they complement eachoter. Such a solution however
> > would be suboptimal to me
>
> I don't understand why this is unnatural. Could you develop a case
> scenario what would warrant the pausing? Personally, I would prefer
> hooks for user defined scripts (between stages).
That would enable powerful customization of the process while leaving the
execution unattended (no pauses). However it doesn't fill the need for
optional pausing between steps, because not everything can be done in a
script. In particular, a user might want to look at what the installer's done
and act on it.
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