Re: Uploading a new version of bogl?
[Daniel Jacobowitz]
> I'm working on them today anyway.
Wonderful. :)
> Is anyone from debian-boot interested in adopting bogl, by the way?
I do not feel competent and doubt I can prioritize away any of my
other tasks.
> I adopted it in order to start the bogl-based d-i frontend a long
> time ago; I don't know if anyone ever picked up that code to do
> anything with it or not.
Ah, so that is where the bogl frontend came from. I have no idea if
it work or if anyone is working on it. I use the newt frontend at the
moment, and used the slang frontend before.
> And I haven't had time to work on it in a very long time. Bogl
> needs at the least to have some attention given to scrolling
> performance (which _sucks_).
OK.
> My other question is if bterm is still necessary. As I recall it
> was used in order to support UTF-8, right?
Right. I thought it was the only way.
> But Linux kernels as of 2.4.x have native UTF-8 support on the
> console; is it inadequate?
No idea. Tell us more. :)
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