Re: General direction of current sysinst [was: Re: Sysinst support for installing source sets]

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 3/7/12 4:50 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> As far as my work is concernced, I can only repeat what I stated earlier:  I am 
> integrating Lua into sysinst and provide a Lua scripted installer that behaves 
> exactly as the current installer, but is easier to change/adapt/extend.

That would be good to see, and is certainly what I would have used to 
implement the extensions I did, had it been available.

> Whether that should be in NetBSD 6 or not is not my decision, but imo it would 
> be suboptimal to do a lot of fixes now in the C part when everyone is aware 
> that more general work on sysinst is going on.

When I began working on the stuff I added, it was definitely with the 
thought that a way of setting up a system more completely was needed for 
6.0.  Whether that happens now is mostly a matter of whether things can 
be polished enough in the next week or two to go in.  I think my changes 
work OK (not great) from a functional point of view, but the user 
interface needs work that I am not likely to get around to... it's not 
my strong suit (as evidenced by the way it looks right now).
I am hesitant to commit my changes because of that.


> Are there any critical, i.e. showstopper bugs in current sysinst that have to 
> be fixed for NetBSD 6?

I'm not aware of any, other than *really* wanting at least basic binary 
pkg integration available for the release.

+j