On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:37:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:04:54PM -0500, Michael J. Flickinger wrote: > > I'll have a little more free time coming up soon, I'll start hacking > > on a custom installer. I really can't find any simple installer that > > exists. > > Maybe because installation is not a trivial thing at all, and can't be > made much simpler? > > Everyone who has set out to create a simple installer so far ended up > with a complicated one. Why do you believe you can do it better than all > the major Linux distributors, who have invested a lot of effort into > simple installers for sure, considering they are usually judged > *primarily* by the simplicity of their installers? > > -antrik- >
Simple, because I would at least aim for a simple design. I think there's something wrong when you set out to write an installer in Python and end up with with around 60,000 files. Rather than giving a pejorative stance on how we can't write a simple installer, why not reason why we could? I'm not saying all installers are bad from a user-insterface standpoint, I'm trying to say they are just far too obtuse in regard to the actual program itself. -- Michael J. Flickinger _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
