Re: svgalib install
On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, David L. Johnson wrote:
> I would be cautious about even using svgalib to fancy-up the
> installation. Slackware does this, and has (or had) to have a plain
> tty version as a backup for those that had trouble. In addition, the
> fancy installation screen buried error messages, so you (as a novice)
> would have no idea when something went wrong.
That depends on how you do things. A well done installation procedure
could redirect the standard error (and output) of the invoked programs
to an a window in the user interface, so that messages can be read
freely by the user. Anyway, I think the main problem with svgalib is,
as someone else pointed out, the difficulty to create a nice and
comfortable user interface using a simple graphics library as the
starting point. That is potentially a very complex task.
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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