Re: [Oscar-devel] Son of Rewriting the Installer

[Neil Gorsuch]

The plan (or at least the plan around here) has always been that a package 
can, in addition to providing an HTML type configurator panel, as an 
alternative have it's own arbitrary program called to do the same thing 
that can pop up as many sequences of windows as it wants.

At 04:50 PM 3/6/2003 -0500, Benoit des Ligneris wrote:
> We have that now. Any package can come up with any configurator panel  for
> the package, without any changes to the OSCAR GUI. What I don't want is 
for
> a package to be able to dynamically insert buttons/whatever into the main
> OSCAR GUI. Packages should not be able to mess up the main OSCAR GUI.

Not really. Some packages needs additional steps, not just a
configurator panel. Some packages will have their own logic and offer
choices & user input depending on the precedent.
I don't say that packages should be able to add buttons & co to a
given OSCAR pannel but they should be able to provide their own pannel and
their own logic directly from the OSCAR wizard. Packages should be able to
do it without affecting a single line of code of the wizard otherwise we
will end up with a completely unstable and unmanageable GUI wizard.
Modular GUI is only a logical consequence of modular OSCAR. If the GUI is not
modular then OSCAR is not modular and we will come back at an early
(less advanced IMHO) OSCAR version...
Ben

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