My project wish-list for the next 12 months

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Viernes, 3 de Diciembre de 2004 13:29, Devon H. O'Dell escribió:
> Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> > El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 02:23, Peter Kieser escribió:
> >>Scott Long wrote:
[ ... ]
> > Also, I can remenber, al last, other previous try.  Please, use a
> > safe path.  As a reference, Mandrake Drakx is accesible via cvs
> > (but gpl).
> >
> > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/drakx.php3
> >
> > As anaconda (which use python instead of perl) is an installer
> > working from a system interpreter in a big mdfs. works over
> > perlgtk2 and a vesa X server.  This may be used in FreeBSD for
> > cdrom/pxe installs
>
> Anaconda is also GPLed and also requires a good few changes for most
> of it to run under FreeBSD. I haven't made any of these changes, but
> we looked into using Anaconda in DragonFly before we started on our
> own installer, and it would have just been too much work for the
> deadline we had (our 1.0 installer was written in less than 3
> months!). Yes, it is in Python, but all the VESA stuff is via
> framebuffer, not an X server, so it's not something that we could use
> easily. At least, this was the case when I researched it in May.
> Anything GPL probably won't qualify in the first place, due to
> obvious license incompatibilities.
>

I'm not talking about port Anaconda or DarkX,  but on analyse the 
building blocks:

- a two mfs based apoarch (stage1/stage2)
- a powerfull system orirented interpreter (perl/python)
- proven system libraries (perlgtk2 ...)
- a vesa based Xserver, very reduced.

> While I don't want to sound shameless, I do urge you who are used to
> sysinstall to take a look at our installer --
> http://www.bsdinstaller.org. It's very simple to extend, and it's not
> very large.
>

I found bsdinstaller a good candidate, but more a WIP that a reference.  
Both anaconda and DrakX are more mature.

I don't know too much about anaconda, but DarkX have several years of 
evolution.  And maybe someone find perl more familiar than python.

> I haven't looked at Drakx at all, so I can't say anything useful
> about that.
>

You can find it on Mandrake cvs, but I don't know if they have a cvsweb 
interface.

--
  josemi

> HTH,
>
> Devon H. O'Dell