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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] New class diagram and use case
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:28:06
Message-Id: 200402031117.49883.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] New class diagram and use case by Eric Sammer
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4 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:37, Eric Sammer wrote:
5 > Paul de Vrieze wrote:
6 > > You might want to note that the offer of saving the profile is only
7 > > reliable in the case that certain steps have not been performed
8 > > manually.
9 >
10 > This is very true.
11 >
12 > > One might
13 > > give the option to redo things, or to review parts where some kind
14 > > of manual intervention has taken place.
15 >
16 > This is interesting. At risk of starting YA-Flame-War, I'd
17 > (personally) like to get a base system back end working before we get
18 > into pausing between steps and allowing users to muck around.
19 >
20 > Before everyone floods with "but I want to do some stuff manually,"
21 > take a deep breath and remember that I said *before* meaning that
22 > there's an *after* meaning it is inevitable. ;)
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24 Just remember to use a progressive xml parsing strategy like SAX (forget
25 DOM) so at least you can do things as pause. In this case you just do
26 things as you find them in the xml file. If the file/pipe blocks you
27 have a pause, else you continue, all for free.
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29 Paul
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Re: [gentoo-installer] New class diagram and use case Eric Sammer <esammer@g.o>