From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12627 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Apr 2003 16:33:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4863 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 16:33:33 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:33:32 -0600 From: Alain Penders To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030413163332.GA4039@rexorient.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alain Penders , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: RexOrient.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 27718917-e19d-4524-836e-a1c8c5a0618e X-Archives-Hash: a46756889af6ee7561c823d2bad76b8a The main installer that was being worked on is Cursing Cow. Both developers that were working on it recently left Gentoo, however. If someone wanted to continue it's development, we probably can get the information needed from them. From what I know, it's in pretty good condition... part of it needed to be rewritten, but nothing major. There's at least one (I think two) other installers in CVS, but I have no idea on their status or where they were left at. Building a good installer goes beyond installing Gentoo. For example, if the installer has a module to configure networking, that module should be written so that it works in the installer, but also in an after-install system configuration tool. Installers also need to be able to handle updates or "corrective installs", which means integration with configuration file management. Alain On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:04:10PM -0600, Jeff Rose wrote: > Hello, > I'm pretty new to gentoo, but I am an instant convert. Just a > few months of emerge bliss and now I'm an avid supporter. Anyway, I'm > thinking about starting a summer project and I'm pondering the idea of a > gui installer. I've been looking around a bit and it doesn't look like > anyone is working on one. Is that true? If there isn't already a project > then I think I'll give it a whirl. I know, I know, gentoo is so great > because it allows you to customize and tweak the hell out of everything. > That is completely true. So, an installer would have to allow just as > much but it could take care of the mundane details for those who aren't > interested or knowledgable enough. > I haven't been around to see what people discuss in terms of the > installer so I'm sorry if this is all stuff that you have gone over > hundreds of times. Even more minimal than a gui installer, have you > thought about adding more scripts to do the standard directory setup, > download, chroot... type of stuff? > What do you think? > > -Jeff > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list