FreeBSD installers and future direction

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 5/27/13 9:56 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 27/05/2013 16:48, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Why can we not use in the interim use pc-sysinstall on the platforms 
>> that it performs best on and use bsdinstall on the others?
>
> Because pc-sysinstall doesn't have a UI - it's only a backend. If we 
> update bsdinstall to use it, then it won't work on other platforms.
>
This still doesn't make sense to me.  Why can bsdinstall not 
conditionally use it?

Do we always have to seek the lowest common denominator for our user 
experience?

-Alfred