Jim Hall wrote: > Blair Campbell wrote: >> Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical >> installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would >> blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works >> pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. >> >> Unless anyone releases a showstopper-fixed graphical installer :-). >> >> [...] >> FDPKG 1.0-pre will be installed by default for package management, and >> a modified text installer will do its best to integrate package >> management into the installed FreeDOS (including removal of unwanted >> packages, dependency checking, etc..) Included with it is a utility >> that uses specified files to rename short filenames to long filenames >> needed by some packages. That way, the long filenames can survive >> being zipped and unzipped with an Info-Zip that doesn't support long >> filenames. >> > > > Hi Blair, > > After the "1.0" distro is out, I'm thinking I'd like to help > rebuild/improve the graphical installer, merging it with FDPKG, etc. > The installer is the first thing that people will see when they try out > FreeDOS ... a text installer is okay, but a nice-looking graphical > version would be killer. I've been putting some thought into how to > make the install process easier (not possible to implement before "1.0", > but likely for the next distro) and I'd like to get involved again and > write code for that. Heck, integrating package management into the > FreeDOS installer was always a big goal of mine, but I never went to do > it - maybe I can finally help make that happen. :-) > > Looks like the Install program that's on CVS > (http://freedos.cvs.sourceforge.net/freedos/install/) is a slightly > modified version of the text installer I wrote several years ago. Where > are the sources for the graphical installer? Or would it be better to > re-write the graphical installer from scratch?
powerbatch is also available under the GPL now, if you want to make the actual text installer prettier: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~furlongm/dos/pbatch/ There's an example included with the zip, to show off the fancy things it can do. Marcus. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
