Re: is this list alive?

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:05 -0800, Bedros Hanounik wrote:
> I subscribed to this list last week to watch closely the development
> of gentoo installer, but so far, it's dead.

Many/most of us prefer to talk in the #gentoo-installer IRC room at
Freenode.

> 
> I have some python and wxpython experience, and looking to learn pygtk
> some time soon. I'm hardware engineer  by profession, (VHDL, Verilog,
> ...etc) but I also know many programming languages, few I've used
> before are  C, C++, java, perl, pascal, VB, lisp, python
> 
> I don't have much time on my hands, but I could squeeze things here and there.
> 
> Anyone on this list can explain to me the framework of
> gentoo-installer? is it based on some other work (anaconda, kudzu,
> etc)

As far as I know it is not directly based on some other work, but I
wasn't around when the project was being started. 

GLI is written in Python.  It has a backend and (currently) two
frontends (one in dialog and one in pyGTK).  If you want more detail
than that you'll probably want to ask agaffney.

> Thanks,
> 
> -Bedros
> 
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