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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO generation [back on-topic]
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:21:19 -0800

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:36:16AM -0600, David Kowis wrote:
> <quote who="Eric Sandall">
>
> > Perhaps not worry about the graphical installer yet (another
> > sub-project for this?) as most people do not want a GUI (other than
> > the ncurses-based one we currently have). I'm not too keen on
> > requiring/using too many languages for the ISO, and since most of us
> > know a little bash (our package manager is written in it) I'd say that
> > bash is the "preferred" language when we need a language.
> >
> > There has been talk of a larger ISO, perhaps one with X already on it,
> > and in that case size probably wouldn't matter, but that's for after
> > we get 1.0 out, IMO.
> That sounds great to me. I was just thinking about it for the moment,
> although it might be wise to plan ahead. If we do a graphical installer,
> we probably won't be able to do it in bash. I'm not sure how easy it'll be
> to integrate the already written bash functions with whatever we use to do
> a graphical installer. I'd rather not have two installer scripts. Actually
> I'd rather have 3 installer scripts:
> 1. The functionality
> 2. the curses based frontend
> 3. the graphical frontend
>
> That was part of the goal anyway, but ncurses expects lists of things a
> certain way, so I need to make sure to store it a generic way, like CSV or
> something, and then write an ncurses_convert_<example>_list function or
> something. That way the functionality can be called from perl, ruby,
> python, etc. More brainstorming...
>
> Anyway, already forgot about doing a graphical thinger, will try to make
> the functionaity independent of the installer frontend, though.
>

Theres always xdialog, an x equivalent of dialog (that ncurses thing).

-Andrew

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