Re: XML idea

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 04:42 PM, Jason Clouse wrote:

> On 2004-01-07 16:33:06 -0700 Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:
> > I think it would be better to have some kind of installation app 
> > which could do this - it would make things a lot simpler. Basically 
> > it would be simple enough to start with whatever the user had 
> > currently installed and be able to pull in all the other libraries, 
> > frameworks, apps, etc that could be useful.
>
> Well, yeah.  But are you assuming that GNUstep will already be 
> installed?  I was talking about a 'from scratch' installation.  Either 
> way, we'd still be talking about installing the polluted 'icky' 
> library by default if there were some sort of friendly installation 
> procedure.  And would people accept a default installation that 
> included such things?
Well, there's a chicken-and-egg problem. BUt I was assuming a minimal 
installation at least (like that which is installed by the Startup 
project I wrote (which is in CVS, but I haven't generally announced)). 
The Install app would startup after that and re-build GNUstep again 
with all the rest of the necessary stuff.