Re: [GSoC] Draft proposal for an Install Wizard for Guix

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu> skribis:

> On 03/25/2016 09:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I like the goals you’re proposing for this installer. How would you
>> go implementing it? The proposal does not explicitly mention a UI
>> library that would be used, and how the UI code would interact with
>> Guix and GuixSD code. 
> I think most of the installer can be done by generating a config.scm
> with the  operating-system declaration that includes the users input
> settings, and I was planning on writing the installer's UI with the
> guile-ncurses library. How does that sound?

Sounds good!

Personally, I would like to view the “wizard” as a helper, and not as
something that hides everything and turns people into “end users.”

I don’t know how this could translate in the design of the tool.
Perhaps showing the ‘operating-system’ declaration as you suggest is one
thing, and making it easy to view the section of the manual that
corresponds to a particular item, or to jump to the code that defines a
specific service (say), would be helpful too.

Thanks,
Ludo’.