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Subject: Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 23:35:23 +0200
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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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 h=
as
> 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=E2=80=99.