FreeBSD installers and future direction

[Super Bisquit]

Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is i386 &
AMD64 only.


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling <erdgeist at erdgeist.org> wrote:

> On 26.05.13 01:07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
> > I'm not aware of any movement there (on either side of the table). I'd
> > personally be very suspicious of an all-sh(1) future -- by far the
> > cleanest parts of bsdinstall are in C -- and this is especially true for
> > interacting with geom. That said, since I've lost nearly all of my free
> > time and ability to work on bsdinstall, I won't get in the way of anyone
> > else working on things
>
> As discussed at BSDCan, I'd be willing to participate in the development
> and at least implement setting up zpools/zfs and geli/gbde providers. I
> have done similar things in sh in my ezjail tools and think I can glue
> the rest together.
>
> Scanning through the pc-sysinstall code, I find nothing too fancy there
> regarding either interaction with zfs nor geom tools. I do not think it
> is necessary as a back end just for these features.
>
> Nathan, is there any design rationale available for the scripts, e.g. on
> why you chose sh versus C and were you provided with some kind of wish
> list/requirements in the first place? Any particular mail thread to scan
> through beforehand?
>
> Regards,
>
>   erdgeist
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