The text installer is not written in batch though... On 7/5/06, Marcus Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > > > Blair Campbell wrote: > >> Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical > >> installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would > >> blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works > >> pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. > >> > >> Unless anyone releases a showstopper-fixed graphical installer :-). > >> > >> [...] > >> FDPKG 1.0-pre will be installed by default for package management, and > >> a modified text installer will do its best to integrate package > >> management into the installed FreeDOS (including removal of unwanted > >> packages, dependency checking, etc..) Included with it is a utility > >> that uses specified files to rename short filenames to long filenames > >> needed by some packages. That way, the long filenames can survive > >> being zipped and unzipped with an Info-Zip that doesn't support long > >> filenames. > >> > > > > > > Hi Blair, > > > > After the "1.0" distro is out, I'm thinking I'd like to help > > rebuild/improve the graphical installer, merging it with FDPKG, etc. > > The installer is the first thing that people will see when they try out > > FreeDOS ... a text installer is okay, but a nice-looking graphical > > version would be killer. I've been putting some thought into how to > > make the install process easier (not possible to implement before "1.0", > > but likely for the next distro) and I'd like to get involved again and > > write code for that. Heck, integrating package management into the > > FreeDOS installer was always a big goal of mine, but I never went to do > > it - maybe I can finally help make that happen. :-) > > > > Looks like the Install program that's on CVS > > (http://freedos.cvs.sourceforge.net/freedos/install/) is a slightly > > modified version of the text installer I wrote several years ago. Where > > are the sources for the graphical installer? Or would it be better to > > re-write the graphical installer from scratch? > > powerbatch is also available under the GPL now, if you want to make the > actual text installer prettier: > > https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~furlongm/dos/pbatch/ > > There's an example included with the zip, to show off the fancy things it > can do. > > Marcus. > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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