On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Christopher Daley wrote:

I know there are new archboot isos up for testing on the mirrors. Maybe you could work on getting AIF integrated with that?

ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/iso/archboot/2008.12/

I would say no since this is not the official installation ISO. Its just tpowa's project. Archlinux in the 2.5 years i have been using it never had a release schedule. It will be ready when its ready. AFAIK only phrakture is working on it. Greg

Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Am Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis:

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Christopher Daley

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I know there are new archboot isos up for testing on the mirrors. Maybe you could work on getting AIF integrated with that?

ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/iso/archboot/2008.12/

I would say no since this is not the official installation ISO. Its just tpowa's project. Archlinux in the 2.5 years i have been using it never had a release schedule. It will be ready when its ready. AFAIK only phrakture is working on it.

Greg

It doesn't include it yet, because the focus on those files was to eleminate bugs reported from 10.2008 archboot files and to push out a new archboot tarball, with the overworked build scripts.

greetings tpowa

Aif doesn't help that goal indeed, but it doesn't conflict with it either (there's a package in aur which installs alongside the other installer and doesn't conflict with it) The real reason is probably that you want to have a good look at the code before integrating it, which is a reason I can sympathize with. Dieter

Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:

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Hi all, Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good enough too.

The reason I'm asking is AIF has again undergone many changes. I could start working now on a usable, reasonably stable alpha release without lvm/dm_crypt support, or if there's more time I can try to stabilize those features as well.

Like Aaron said, it would be nice to have aif as an alternative, experimental installer on the installcd, I would like to synchronize my schedule a bit with the next release.

phrakture wanted to do some work on the ISO scripts, I guess we release after that. The problem with AIF is that we need to get people to actually test it before we release!

If we offer it as an alternative to the old installer and say it's experimental, it'd be no problem, but we probably won't get many testers.

Would be nice anyway to get it on the installer ISO. IMHO there will be even less testers if they'd have to muck about just to get ahold of it. Adding it as an alternative atleast gives you some sort of testing (even thou most probably won't report bugs or "features"). Best regards Fredrik Eriksson

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Fredrik Eriksson wrote:

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Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:

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Hi all, Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good enough too.

The reason I'm asking is AIF has again undergone many changes. I could start working now on a usable, reasonably stable alpha release without lvm/dm_crypt support, or if there's more time I can try to stabilize those features as well.

Like Aaron said, it would be nice to have aif as an alternative, experimental installer on the installcd, I would like to synchronize my schedule a bit with the next release.

phrakture wanted to do some work on the ISO scripts, I guess we release after that. The problem with AIF is that we need to get people to actually test it before we release!

If we offer it as an alternative to the old installer and say it's experimental, it'd be no problem, but we probably won't get many testers.

Would be nice anyway to get it on the installer ISO. IMHO there will be even less testers if they'd have to muck about just to get ahold of it. Adding it as an alternative atleast gives you some sort of testing (even thou most probably won't report bugs or "features").

Right, that's what I was thinking - put it on there anyway because it's just about the only way to get people to test it. I doubt people will make vmware images just to test another installer.

Actually, that's the main thing i use virtual machines for...