From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 23:35:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhz8f1es.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180703152752.50f1795e@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:27:52 +0200")
Hey Danny,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> After this release, let's integrate an installer.
>
> wip-installer-2 works fine. The architecture could be more generic (it has
> peculiar ideas about how any installer screen MUST look), but it's not bad
> or anything. Also, the wizard leaves something to be desired (I didn't
> find the place where it does that yet: You can select any future step, but
> if it requires information in a dependent step, it will instead jump to
> that one - that's jarring and not what you would expect - at least not
> without good visualization).
>
> I thought about doing fully generic Guile window management library a la
> Turbo Vision but it's really overkill for what we need. Nice, sure.
>
> I think the technical holdup for merging wip-installer-2 to master was the
> modularization of guix.
I agree, we should definitely do that! And we can always improve it
incrementally afterwards.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-03 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 8:15 Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview Björn Höfling
2018-07-03 10:49 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-07-03 11:38 ` (Ab?)using aliases to set ls' and others' colours Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-07-04 18:01 ` Björn Höfling
2018-07-04 22:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 22:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-04 17:56 ` Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview Björn Höfling
2018-07-03 13:20 ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-03 13:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-03 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-07-04 14:10 ` KDFONTOP/PIO_UNIMAPCLR: Input/output error Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 14:29 ` Marius Bakke
2018-07-04 22:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-03 21:42 ` Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-04 18:06 ` Björn Höfling
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