Several reasons. The first is the most important: No one has stepped forward and 'done it'. Now, I personally have a lot of reservations about it. I fundamentally don't like the architecture; their claim of divorcing the UI from the model isn't really true. What they've done is create a lowest-common-denominator UI framework that must be invoked directly from the model. Well, I guess that 'directly' isn't quite right, since it's redirected through an RPC mechanism. But anyways, instead of having the UI (and thus the User) direct the flow and control the model, the model directs the flow and periodically exchanges input with the user. In other words, it still has much of the architectural limitations of sysinstall, but with generic UI elements instead of just ncurses. They also haven't shown how to solve the hard problems, mainly partitioning the disk, working in a multi-boot environment, divorcing the 'install the bits' phase from the 'configure the bits' phase, etc. So, it's a nice proof of concept at this point, and it works well for very simple situations, but I don't consider it a sysinstall replacement yet. If the point of having a new installer is to improve the existing state of the art and attract new users, not having multi-boot and partitioning is a serious limitation. Every time I evagelise FreeBSD to someone new, the second question they ask me is whether they can dual boot with it. It is, however, good at exactly what it was designed for, mainly taking your existing FreeBSD installation and morphing it into DFly ;-) Scott John Sconiers wrote: > Is there a reason why we haven't adopted the bsdinstaller? > (www.bsdinstaller.org) > > On 4/29/05, Michael Nottebrock <lofi_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > >>On Friday, 29. April 2005 10:02, /dev/null wrote: >> >>>"And that's everyone likes in BSD's" >>> WOW! Were you elected Official Spokesperson for everyone? ;) >> >>Everybody has an expert opinion on painting bikesheds. >> >>-- >> ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org >> (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org >> \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Fri Apr 29 2005 - 17:55:08 UTC
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