Re: Updates and meeting

Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.installer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eric Sammer wrote:
> SM[1] has picked up the controller code and run with it. He's made some 
> impressive progress, solidifying many of the ideas that we've received.
> 
> Additionally, two people, independent of each other, have come up with 
> working front ends using the controller code. Now, the really cool thing 
> is that both PC[2] and SM have built *working* front ends (of course, 
> super-mega-supreme-alpha status and more of a proof of concept than a 
> final product) that perform at least a simplistic install. The really 
> cool thing is that this shows how developers can take advantage of the 
> design of the code base to do things the way they want. This will allow 
> for many different kinds of clients - automated, GUI, command line, 
> curses, text - whatever you fancy. A huge thumbs up to these two guys 
> who have put in some awesome effort.

Is there a link anywhere to these frontends? I don't know Python (yet), but I 
want to get a general idea of how the FE interacts with the BE.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548
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