Re: redesigning the debian installer
Erik Andersen wrote:
> I think this is brillant.
Gosh. Well, thanks. :-)
FWIW, I have been sort of stuck on how exactly the main menu would work
for about 3 months, and like a dam breaking it all finally came clear and
expressable (I guess) today. Thank goodness!
> This provides a wonderfully simple way of breaking
> things into chunks that can be fully groked by mere mortals, and easily
> verified to be obviously correct. It also ensure that fixing one item doesn't
> break 10 other things by accident. Very good idea. This also means that the
> installer floppy only needs the Menu items needed to select an appropriate key
> mapping, select a user readable langage, and then set up networking or locate
> the cdrom drive. All the other menu items can be downloaded and added
> dynamically...
You grok.
> Any proposed programing language for these modules? C, sh, perl?
Perl is out, far too big. C is fine. Shell is ok if you limit yourself to
pure posix shell and are very careful about extra shell commands you use,
since each such command adds more size.
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