Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Installer

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 04:28, dams@gentoo.org wrote:
> you are probably right on the installer part : it's maybe too big for the
> -research to develop it. But I think it's still a good thinkg to talk about it,
> with logs, meeting reports and so on. It might be good to have at least
> organized and written notes on the subject, even if we don't bring anything
> new. Installer development should not be held by the -research imo, but
> Installer research can be :)

Oh you of little faith. Someone approached karltk at LWE with a
completed python+gtk2 installer. See http://pen2.sclab.clarkson.edu/.

I quote Karl:
"What's more, they're going to be working actively on this
irrespectively of whether we officially start using it or not. I
personally would think it completely stupid not to seriously consider
this most generous offer; they are an entire sw development team, they
seem organised, they have api docs, and they're long-time gentoo users.
Having them do most of the dirty-work, leaves us to do integration and
tweaks, to polish this thing off."

An old snapshot of source is at:
http://www.clarkson.edu/class/cs450/fa2003/projects/gentoo/pen2.tar.gz.

Thanks,
Donnie

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