Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

On 12/27/2011 18:32, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> On 12/28/11 06:29, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 12/27/2011 03:48, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>>> On the topic of Doug's actual question, I see minimal sense in
>>> resurrecting sysinstall in head now. I would suggest it be done much
>>> closer to (say, 6 months before) the 10.0 release cycle, if no suitable
>>> post-installation configuration tool has materialised.
>>
>> My concern about that approach is that 9.0 hasn't even been released yet
>> and we've already seen changes that are going to make it hard to
>> resurrect sysinstall if that's the decision we come to. Waiting another
>> year or 2 would make it impossible.
> 
> Which changes are you referring to? I would have thought a reverse merge
> to undo the deletion of the sysinstall and old libdialog sources would
> be very minimal work.

Then I admire your mad skillz, because it sounds like a lot of work to
me. :)

> We'd also probably need a few extra build system
> changes to make sure old libdialog is perhaps statically compiled into
> sysinstall as it would be the only in-tree consumer, but that's not hard
> either. I may be lacking some imagination, but don't really see why it
> would become harder the longer we wait.

My concern is that it's going to get worse as time goes along. Without
sysinstall in the base people are going to feel free to make changes to
things that sysinstall depends on (as they have already), and waiting a
year or 2 to resurrect it will cause that problem to grow exponentially.


Doug

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