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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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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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> 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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--kurt |
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