[arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux

[Dieter Plaetinck]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> My honest opinion is that this is awesome. You're the reason I love
> open source 8)
>
>   
I feel flattered :)

> That said, we haven't release a 2.6.27 ISO just yet, and I need to go
> in panic mode and get it out this weekend. But for the next release,
> or even a smaller release before then, I'd *love* to incorporate this.
>
>   
Can you explain how we can make that work? I assume you would 
incorporate it as an additional, experimental installer first?
And if you do that, making a new category "Installer: experimental" / 
"Installer: fifa" /.. on flyspray would probably be a good idea..
(Actually I'm thinking of renaming this thing.  There is already a 
football association called like this and a good framework should be 
flexible anyway.
AIF ? Arch Installation Framework?  Any ideas on this also welcome)

> It looks very clean and easy to follow. The only minor quibble I had
> was that in order to track things down, I felt like I was opening too
> many files. Ok this calls, blah, which is in this file, and blah does
> nothing but call bar, which is in this file, ...., ah there we go! But
> it's not a bad thing, really.
>
>   
True, that's what you get with modularity, things inheriting form each 
other, decoupling of UI etc :-)
I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible though (keeping the other 
design goals of reusability etc in mind)

> In order to help us along... could you possibly stick a binary package
> somewhere (see https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/archlinux-installer/)?
> This will help me if I want to build an ISO using your installer. 8)
>   
I don't have access there.  Is this the same package as 
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/archlinux-installer/ ?

> Just letting you know: I'm not silent because I don't care. I'm silent
> because I'm watching and drooling 8)
>