On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 10:46 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: > > Thanks, > > Ok, pretty silly.. I was looking at all the projects yesterday, I must > > have overlooked the 'installer' repo, because after some searching I > > eventually found the scripts in a subdirectory of the archboot project, > > so I called them that way > > ( http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=archboot.git;a=tree;f=installer ) > > The installer in archboot is different from the one in the installer > repo afaik. On our official ISOs (the last were 2008.06 and > 2008.08-froscon) we use archiso and the installer from installer.git. > > Also, the installer does a lot of crap IIRC, so feel free to improve > anything you want. If this effort turns about to be good quality in the > end, we might even adopt it and use it to create a better console-based > installer and a better quickinst/automated installer. Keep us updated > here, please. > Okay, I've thrown away the 'lib-archboot' in fifa and started over with the files from installer.git. The quickinst functions are ported already (I didn't build a profile to use/test them yet though). Right now I'm going over the setup script and moving it's functionality in different fifa libraries and profiles. Imho, the setup script consists of 3 things coupled very tightly together: - backend "real work" functionality (install grub, packages,...) - flow control (eg you can't do step x if requirement y or z hasn't been met yet) - UI logic (show the progress of a process, ask the user a question,..) What I'm doing now is moving: - the UI logic into lib-ui.sh (eg you can ask questions and inform the user in a mode-agnostic way. set a variable to use dialog mode or plain cli) - the backend "real work" code into libraries like lib-pacman, lib-network etc. - the flow control functionality in a (draft of) an 'interactive' profile (what might someday become a replacement of the current setup script) It's a lot of work but I'm convinced the end result will be worth it. If anyone wants to help me out, feel free to contact me. I'm also on #archlinux (username Dieterbe) You can also have a look at the code http://github.com/Dieterbe/fifa Let me know what you think. Thanks, Dieter
