From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Come back and graphical installer Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:29:25 +0100 Message-ID: <877ehcsocq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lg6sejwa.fsf@gmail.com> <87wopd88hq.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNlg8-0008Id-1V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:29:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNlg7-0000vw-BW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:29:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wopd88hq.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:20:01 +0900") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: Guix-devel Hello! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > I updated the wip-newt-installer, with a first testable version of the > installer. As it requires to rebuild the world and it is not built by > berlin yet, here's an iso version of the installer. > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OoVhlok1QMRcItwGBZfYn8Ocma-h2oGL/view?us= p=3Dsharing Arf, sorry we haven=E2=80=99t set up berlin yet. Now there=E2=80=99s no ri= sk of having a disk space shortage there so we should really do it. Now, is the full rebuild caused by the installation of the i18n/SUPPORTED file in the glibc package? If the answer is yes, what about creating a separate package (or simply a =E2=80=98computed-file=E2=80=99) that would contain nothing but that file= ? That would allow us to avoid the full rebuild this time, and thus we could push the new interface out sooner. (Also, we wouldn=E2=80=99t have to connect to Go= ogle Drive. :-)) WDYT? > Since my last email, I also added an abstraction layout (in the > gnu/bootloader.scm idea), so that if we want to add a new (gtk3?) > installer in the future, we can still use the same grounds. Sounds really nice! > I feel that now is a good time to gather remarks/ideas/patches before > diving into the last part. Plus, I'm terrible UI design so any help > tuning logo, colors and button placement would be much appreciated :) Minor issue: I think =E2=80=98configure.ac=E2=80=99 should not abort when N= ewt is missing; in general, I think we=E2=80=99ll want to build Guix without Newt = and without building the installer. Likewise, in (guix self), we should create a special =E2=80=9Cnode=E2=80=9D containing (gnu installer =E2=80=A6= ) and arrange so that it=E2=80=99s not compiled; it makes no sense to have it compiled here, exce= pt for testing. WDYT? Thank you! Ludo=E2=80=99, who=E2=80=99d like to give it a try soon!