FreeBSD installers and future direction

[Matt Olander]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
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> I heard there was some discussion at BSDCan about the direction of a future FreeBSD installer.  Considering we currently have bsdinstall, pc-sysinstall, and an effort to revive sysinstall, I'd be interested to know what was decided (if anything) and whether I could help make progress towards getting a single really good installer/frontend - instead of the current situation with several, none of which have a much-needed UI for setting up an installation on ZFS.

Hey Bruce,

>From my vague recollection, we discussed improving bsdinstall by tying
it in with pc-sysinstall, which we've been threatening to do for at
least a year. Also, there was much discussion about Devin's bsdconfig
perhaps tying in with a Google SoC Project.

I think Devin was nominated for most of the work, since he was unable
to defend himself :P

Cheers,
-matt