Installer: again

Enemy God jasse at hornet.ac
Sun Feb 15 01:17:32 PST 2004


On Sunday 15 February 2004 03.59, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>
> news:200402150219.i1F2JUeM076766 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >     There were several discussions.  I truely do not know what the
> >     best approach is for an installer but the more I think about it
> >     the more I think that Python is the way to go... that trying to
> >     make it browser based will just result in an ugly, underperforming
> >     installer.
>
> You mean ugly, code-wise, or ugly, cosmetically?  One advantage of
> sticking to a browser based install is that it can be very easy on the
> eyes, and so somewhat easier to perform.

Sure, it's better looking in a browser, but I doubt that you want
to start that thing from a boot CD with an unconfigged XFree.



    Jasse, Authorized Stealth Oracle






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