Re: debian-installer (Was: Wishlist for woody+1)
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:36:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > I'm curious, is it possible to summarise what will make debian-installer so
> > much better than boot-floppies? What is it about boot-floppies that makes it
> > so hard to maintain between releases?
>
> Well it's a huge morass of incrementally and spottily maintained code
> that seems to have just accreated together for starters. It's hard to
> get up to speed on it, hard to build it, hard for third parties to make
> any customizations of it.
> ...
> Basically d-i addresses every point I mention above. For a bit more
> depth on this, see doc/goals.txt in debian-installer cvs.
> ...
Thanks for the summary :)
Drew
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