The principal problem with libh is too many chiefs and not enough indians. Poor Alex and Max have done a HUGE amount of work on the system but it's large enough in scope that 2 people cannot hope to do it all by themselves, particularly when there's no relief shift to take things over when they get tired occasionally. From an architectural perspective, there's nothing which would stop libh from fulfilling all the dreams I've seen laid out here (and a number people haven't even mentioned yet, like scriptable installs or alternate look-and-feels). The principle thing standing in the way of this and every other "let's get rid of sysinstall" effort, for that matter, is a lack of engineers.

This one's a bit like government. Everyone has an opinion about how it should work or what it could be doing better, but very few people want to actually get involved in changing it. :-)

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:23 AM, Samy Al Bahra wrote:

Though, before we all get excited about the possibilities of such an
installer, what's happening with libh? Isn't it supposed to deal with
all of sysintall's short-comings? All I see now is a lot of talk and no
code, maybe such discussion should go to libh's mailing list (where we
can talk design there)?

--
Jordan K. Hubbard
Engineering Manager, BSD technology group
Apple Computer

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