Re: [Maxlinux-devel] InceptionOS Setup and DialogML

[Michael L. <inc...@my...>]

Kelledin,

This sounds good, but to write out own interpreter, we'd have to find
someone as I know Kelledin you are busy with the packages and work, Terry
is just busy with work -- wish I was foing that right now :( -- and I
have no idea about anyone else because they hardly ever post anything to
the list.  And as you know Enrico was also programming the installer, as
it can still be found in his directory at:

http://www.inceptionos.org/~phantom/devel/

Unfortunately, Enrico does not seem to be working on it anymore...so if
anyone wants to take a look at the source for that as well I am going to
post a Help Wanted ad on SF again.


Michael


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:33:11 -0500, "Kelledin"
<kel...@sk...> said:
> While scoping about for resources on programming setup dialogs, I 
> came across the DialogML standard:
> 
> http://dialogml.sourceforge.net/
> 
> This looks like a big part of what we need for IOS setup--an 
> XML-based markup language that takes a lot of the work out of 
> setting up dialog boxes.  It's great for setup, and it's perfect 
> for certain extra features I had envisioned for the IOS setup 
> engine.
> 
> The catch?  DialogML just that--a markup language.  It needs an 
> interpreter front-end to be of much use.  The default one that 
> comes with it (STARTME awk script) is dreadfully ugly and rather 
> non-intuitive.  The DialogML author is currently working on a 
> better curses-based interpreter, but that's not even available 
> in any form for public consumption.
> 
> In the end, I think that whatever we do for an installation tool, 
> DialogML should be part of it.  If we proceed based on that, we 
> hvae two choices: either wait for the author to finish the 
> curses-based interpreter (and hope it's sufficient), or write 
> our own interpreter.
> 
> -- 
> Kelledin
> "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
> it still cost four figures to fix?"
> 
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