It's been rumoured that Garrett Robert Banuk said:
>
> Yes, I've thought about doing this. Maybe on my free time over this
> summer. I was going to do this for my college project but it just
> seems to small.
I think you wildly underestimate how hard it is to do a good installer.
I think you could do this as a college project, and finish it, and
realize that what you finished is just a good start, with a whole lot
more that needs to be done.
--linas
> On 25 May 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> > I would like an install experience that's
> > as novice-friendly as the Windows and MacOS installers (but that works
> > a lot better and doesn't install needless junk on your machine). What
> > that means to me is that you put a CD in the drive, double-click an
> > icon, and answer a minimal number of questions, and the rest is done
> > for you. Of course you should also be able to escape this process and
> > install the RPM/deb by hand, or build from source, or run the
> > "friendly" installer and just produce a shell script of commands as
> > output that you can inspect and run at your leisure.
> >
> > An installer that can deal with all this is probably a sophisticated
> > enough piece of software that it would deserve being "its own thing".
> >
> > Bill Gribble
> >
> >
> >
>
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