Re: project status
Paul de Vrieze <[email protected]>
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On Saturday 08 January 2005 23:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > 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/>. The gtk based frontend looks great. Allthough I would suggest that you might want to ask Aaron Shi (the guy who won the website redesign contest) for help with the artwork ;-) Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net