Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

> If we follow jkh's outline, making another "front end target" for the
> script shouldn't be that hard.  You have X, VESA Syscons, and Text
> Syscons.
> 
> The script says "ok, prompt user for <blah>", under X it opens a window,
> under Text some ASCII dialog, and under VESA a little window.

VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or
something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list
but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much
a pipe-dream. :-)  There's actually one mode you forgot, which is
what I call "text mode", and that's straight ascii prompts, no CUI-style
dialog boxes or anything.  Think about text-to-speach devices for
the blind or serial consoles attached to really *dumb* terminals. :-)

- Jordan


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