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: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:37:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87efcikvik.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lg6sejwa.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8hgprn3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k1mcei0d.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]:39089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEZSS-0004fe-TN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:37:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEZSI-0005GQ-2c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:37:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k1mcei0d.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:48:34 +0600") 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: > To give you my opinion, I think that having a X/Wayland installer would > be really nice and totally agree. However, I also think it is important > to capitalize on the work already done. Plus, writting this kind of > installer is quite complicated because: > > * Using Anaconda[1] as suggested by Harmut would mean interfacing a huge > codebase in Python, written for FHS based distributions. > * To write this kind of installer in Guile, we need bindings for a nice > high level graphical library and we have to be careful not to increase > too much the installer footprint. > > So this seems that something we want in the future but that is a bit out > of reach for the 1.0 release. Seconded. To me the graphical installer is in the nice-to-have category and not in the 1.0-blocker category. Ludo=E2=80=99.