installer

[Michal Moskal]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:20:33AM +0100, Jarek Woloszyn wrote:
> [sobota, 30 grudzień 2000], Paweł Kołodziej napisał(a):
> 
> > > With one exception: wuch.
> > 
> > :)) I think that writing new user interface to wuch could be a good thing.
> > Current one (written by yossa) uses newt and I just can't
> > develope it (personally, I think newt should be banned).
> > Any volunteers ? In fact since in wuch's user interface is almost completly
> > separated from "main code" it should be quite easy.
> 
> First of all, i haven't seen this new installer, and I don't know dml at all.
well, noone knows it at the moment except me ;)

> 
> I see one problem with writing a new interface to wuch. The problem is
> that GUI consists of a big data structure of pointers to rpm header data.
> This structure is some kind o B-tree and describes all directories in the 
> selector. When we show this on the screen newt functions get also a pointers
> to a flag ,,selected'' to every dir entry and the trick with selecting 
> packages is done in the newt functions. 
> Pkgssel dosn't use raw newt. I took some functions from
> newt and created a new widget to support this. 
> The magic is in a clever data structure, so the gui code is very simple.
> 
dml is built around libabry for uiser interface.
sou you don;t have to wriet forma, you can
do it by hand.


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                             Michał Moskal <malekith w pld.org.pl>

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