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Eric Sammer wrote: |
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>> 2. Whether Python or not, will real-time frontends have to be written |
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>> the same language as the core installer, or will it be controlled |
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>> through a pipe or similar method? |
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> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "real time" but the physical |
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> commands will be shelled out where required. If you're asking if we're |
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> going to reimplement fdisk in pure python, the answer is a certain "no." ;) |
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By real-time, I mean that if you create your partition layout in the frontend and then |
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click 'Next ->', it will fire off a function call to the installer core which will put |
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that partition layout into effect. Just the same as most installers work, instead of how |
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the GLIS frontend and backend works. With the frontend that Scott Hadfield and I jointly |
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wrote for GLIS, the frontend creates the config file which gets passed to the backend when |
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the config is done. That is not real-time. |
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>> I don't know Python, but I have pretty decent bash - only since |
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>> 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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Everybody is repeating themselves, even me. ;) |
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