Re: picking up from the conference

Sven,

Just another factor to add into your considerations: I try not to make
significant changes to the installer on +0.0.1 updates. So, 4.3 is our next
big target for installer updates. I've already been working on several
features for 4.3, and they're all in the "master" branch for the Unified
Installer. The current master actually installs 4.2.2, but has the new
features intended for 4.3

Steve


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Steve McMahon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sven and all,
>
> I hadn't heard of whiptail! Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> The Unified Installer has — so far — aimed for a very high degree of
> compatibility between Unix-workalike systems. In a quick check, I didn't
> find whiptail on anything other than debian/ubuntu. However, so long as we
> provide an alternative mechanism for other systems, and so long as it's
> possible to use the installer completely from the command line for
> automated installs, I don't see any reason not to try it out! Debian/Ubuntu
> is a huge portion of our install targets these days.
>
> Want to experiment on a branch and let us know how it's going?
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:53 AM, sven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I was thinking about the open space about installers from the conference
>> this year and i thought maybe it's time to pick up some ideas from there
>> [see my mail from 2012-10-17 [Plone-installers] open space notes from the
>> conference].
>>
>> One question was to display something like a message window when you
>> start the installer which is telling you about the system requirements,
>> links to documentation and help.
>>
>> For linux/unix based system this could be easily resolved with a little
>> whiptail magic  [ http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/whiptail.htm]
>> which is installed by default on almost all distros [i did not check on
>> solaris], since it's used for most of the distro installers anyway.
>> I still have no idea yet, how to solve that on os x.
>>
>> So do we want to try to go this direction ?
>> Maybe it's was already tried, but people decided for various reasons
>> against it ?
>>
>> Before I start to spent some time on that, I would like to ask for input,
>> opinions and if it's worth :)
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> /sven
>>
>>
>>
>>
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