Re: gdselect alpha 3
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Michael> Perhaps an incremental approach is good: a good gui for the
> > Michael> existing product in this release, other features in other
> > Michael> releases. Maybe apt will be better, but we haven't seen it
> > Michael> yet (referring to the UI). Apt's been in development for a
> > Michael> long time, maybe some friendly competition will help. And
> > Michael> why can't we have multiple UI's to the package management
> > Michael> system? This is linux: one size doesn't fit all.
There was a feature on slashdot a while ago saying that projects that sit
around and talk constantly never do anything. Ones that have someone just
put up some code for the public to critique seem to be the fastest and the
best. The code has been put up, now its our turn to suggest how it can be
fixed/improved, not complain that it shouldn't be there at all.
> I didn't mean to argue that gdselect should necessarily ship now; by
> release I meant "this release of gdselect." What I was trying to answer
> was an attitude that seemed to be saying "we shouldn't do anything about
> dselect until we have a solution that not only provides a decent gui,
> but also everything else." (Which I took to mean automatic package
> dselection, superpackages, seamless x/tty transition, and everything
> else that apt is supposed to provide.) Some people just want a gui, and
> I think it's reasonable to provide it. It's not fair to compare gdselect
> with what apt is supposed to be, if for no other reason than that
> they're not trying to acheive the same goals.
Perhaps this can encourage the apt maintainers to finalize how the
different ui's interface with their libraries in a universal way. Since
all they have had is the CLI, there may be some work to finish for this.
> BTW, since I don't see how gdselect could be used on initial
> installation anyway, I don't think it would hurt to leave it off the
> cd's and make it available for download later. We can call it a beta or
> whatever, but those who want it could still use it.
I think sid is the place for this. When you are ready, you can move it
to the current unstable.
Brandon
P.S. just looking at the screen shots, I think this is a really good
thing. Bravo.
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