project status
Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.installer |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Unless you hang out in the IRC channel for this project, you probably don't have much of an idea about what has been going on. I'm going to try to rectify that. We have been making a lot of progress lately and are close to a testing release. There are two installer frontends in the works: one dialog based and the other GTK based. Screenshots of both can be found at <http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/>. Keep in mind that both of these frontends are works in progress and are subject to major change. The installer backend is almost complete (ready for testing, not necessarily done). We have done a few successful tests with it (a complete install from beginning to end) and come out with a working system after a reboot. The partitioning code still needs some (a lot) work, but it currently "works". It initially had filesystem resize support, but that has been removed for now because of "issues" we had with it. The partitioning code is currently getting an overhaul and resize support will likely be added back in before the first release. If you would like to take a look at the code, CVS snapshots are available at <http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/snapshots/>. -- Andrew Gaffney Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project