Re: simple question about installer
* Florent BERANGER <cosmicflo@tuxfamily.org> [2002-12-03 14:45]:
> Hello,
>
> I have a simple question.
> Mandrake (for exemple) have a very good, pretty and simple to use installer
> which users love.
> Mdk's installer is in GPL.
>
> I know that :
> - Debian have an another (but quite similar) OS vision
> - Debian support more archs and want some other options at install
> - There are some little bugs in Mdk installer
> - Mdk's installer is based on libraries that Debian don't want to install and
> is written in Perl.
>
> but why don't use some parts of their code/algo in order to keep time and keep
> Mdk's installer good features (hardware detection, X configuration,...).
I studied, a little, different installers, and Mandrake'installer is not very,
humm, modular. And the system used to bootstrap the installer (like redhat)
is not the same as Debian.
Some code can be shared, for sure, but a lot can't be reused.
--
Thomas Poindessous
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