On 5/27/13 6:53 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 05/27/13 20:40, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On 5/27/13 2:23 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 27/05/2013 21:28, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On 5/27/13 11:40 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
Yes.
Is this a joke?
It probably /was/ too short a reply. Personally I think there should
be a single UI and scripting interface across all platforms. We
should try and get pc-sysinstall running on all of them first in
case there's some problem that means it can't be done, in which case
we'd need to use a different backend.
There are just going to be certain platforms that make it EASY to do
cool things. We should embrace that! That's why there are different
platforms!
Some are great for low power, others are great for graphics, cpu
power, gpu, networking etc.
If we always go for the lowest common denominator then we are
crippling all the platforms for no one's benefit. Even if something
CAN be done, if it is very difficult, or just never happening, then
we can't limit everyone's experience based on the more difficult
and/or resource strapped platforms.
It's just not good business.
Yes, and all of this cuts both ways: pc-sysinstall has no wireless
setup support, for instance. Right now we support what we support
because it is the most feature-complete thing we have, not just on
tier-2 platforms but also on x86.
To bring this discussion back to the ground, the fact is that we lack
an installer that has both internal support for ZFS and a UI. One of
the reasons for this is that making a good expressive UI for ZFS is a
non-trivial undertaking given its enormous flexibility. The bsdinstall
partition editor has been written to be extensible for this, and
several people have started writing code to do it, but no one ended up
having time to finish. Probably a reasonable thing to do is to start
with supporting only a minimal set of features. If anyone felt like
actually writing this code, I'm sure it would be appreciated by all
and be more productive than email exchanges.
-Nathan
I'm sure if there was a list of reasonable things, such as wireless then
pc-sysinstall could be augmented. This is the first I've heard of
that. All the other complaints have been based on portability.
Is that all that is required now, wireless?
-Alfred
-Alfred
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