points on future installation disks development
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My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
- rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
- runtime improvements
- don't run fdisk -l that often
- todo: make a libsfdisk from sfdisk
- more complex datastructures (avoid using sed often)
- more complex input masks and consistent user interface
- network configuration: everything in one screen
- selecting base directory in one screen
- use :
- ncurses and libdialog (from FreeBSD), or
- slang (ncurses shouldn't be needed then, slang is said to have
a curses emulation), or
- turbovision (licence OK?), or
- something else (suggestions welcome)
- easier i18n (see below)
- new features
- installation via serial terminal
- for blind users
- for automated testing
- use lilo in order to drive the serial line early (or modify syslinux ?)
(what about GRUB ?)
- an extra command-mode installation ?
- installing base via ftp and smbfs (and from tape ?)
- mouse support ? (gpm, or derived from gpm)
- i18n plan
- i18n for C files: use GNUish standard method ? (is this gettext ?)
- i18n for shell scripts (swapsetup) (is there a good way for doing this)
or rewrite them in C
- i18n for busybox (is it worth the work and disk space ?)
- try to keep i18n and localization separated
- how many locale data sets will fit on floppy root.bin ?
- bigger root.bin for loadlin booting
- for floppies: make extra locale file that can be copied to Rescue Disk
- assign versions to original and translated text in order to keep
them in sync (and automatically find out when they aren't)
- localization
- translate text files
- translations for the i18n'ed parts
- minors
- better 'make bootable': MBR isn't that self-explaining
Related topic: I expect to have much less time for Debian for the
remainder of this year. So I definitely need help here; especially for
the UI part.
Sven
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Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
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