On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> Well you're not going to convince me that highly unusual requirements >> is a valid reason for someone else to do the monumental amount of work >> to get a GUI installer to do arbitrary things for what amounts to >> total edge cases. > > > And yet, I used to be able to do such things, so the code must have existed. Give an example, and I'll take a stab at supplying an answer. But chances are Anaconda considered such capability simply not worth development resources, even if they didn't consider it a treacherously bad idea. > And, as far as filing bugs when they fsck things up, the response is, "You > were using Expert Mode, and accepted the risks. NOTABUG." No the response is "go build your own GUI installer." The code you're talking about has to be maintained by someone, it doesn't just sit there and keep on working as everything around it changes. Basically that code broke or needed too much work to hook it up to the new user interface, so it was dropped. And even if that's not the case, the code you're referring to is python2 code, so now that anacond-blivet is moving to python3 someone would have to do that migration work. If you, who seems to care about such things so much, won't do that work, then why should anyone else do it? What you're talking about might be in-scope for blivet-gui. It definitely sounds out of scope for a GUI OS installer. Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always succeed in their penultimate goal which is to install a bootable OS. And there are essentially zero user complaints about these installers. There's nothing at all to even complain about because they don't do anything except meet their primary requirement. Not even their developers or testers even complain about the installer, it does one thing successfully. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
