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From: Eric Sammer <esammer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] Some clarifications and a plea
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:41:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402023A2.50605@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4020204D.6010009@skylineaero.com>

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Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> I was under the impression that the "back end" was going to be written 
> in such a way that it allowed for the creation of different frontends,

That is true.

> not necessarily written in the same language as the backend (Python in 
> this case).

That is not.

It's in the docs.

> This all stems from the idea of separation of FE and BE, which in my 
> opinion (not that it counts for anything), is a good thing.

Yes.

> I don't think that anyone is *really* reading that ;)

To be blunt, anyone who wants to be involved in any meaningful way will 
just have to do so. Not to be argumentative about it, but I will just 
refuse to answer the same questions 50 times because someone "is too 
busy" to read a two page document. I am "too busy" to explain it, hence 
the creation of the document.

-- 
Eric Sammer
Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-03 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-03 22:24 [gentoo-installer] Some clarifications and a plea Eric Sammer
2004-02-03 22:27 ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-02-03 22:41   ` Eric Sammer [this message]
2004-02-03 22:42 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-02-03 22:51   ` Eric Sammer

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