Scott James Remnant dijo [Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:24:55PM +0000]: > > If the debian-installer would have been developed further, this would > > not be a problem at all. However, Debian is struggling with the > > debian-installer for several years now and it still is quite away from > > being a usable installer for all stable architectures. > > > > Since the new installer is not ready yet, the old installer hasn't been > > worked on for a while so is probably not usable *anymore* another > > installation system that is not (yet?) considered as the new installer > > can only distract people from the debian-installer, hence delaying it > > even more. > > > Ah, I apologise ... your problem is that not working on d-i will delay > the release of sarge, because it needs a new installer? > > In that case, the solution is simple. Add Progeny's work to the list of > installation systems being considered for sarge. From Ian's mail it > sounds like they've got it in pretty good shape already. > > I'm sure you have no objection to that, if it means we could release > sarge on time? I don't think this would work. Progeny has made a great installer, and now is working on another one. The reason they could do it is because they are not bound by what MIPS or m68k can do - Anaconda works on some architecutres, but does not work on others. Anaconda is (in its current shape) not good for Debian as the main installation system. Besides, last time I checked, Anaconda was HUGE - Would not work if we want to still provide the ability to install using a couple of floppies. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gwolf@gwolf.cx - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
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