Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> skribis:

> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> There is a new branch called "wip-installer" providing a graphical
>> installer for GuixSD.  A screenshot of it in action is attached.
>>
>> We want GuixSD to be accessible to as many people as possible,
>> including people who may not (yet) be comfortable using bash and/or
>> guile.
>
> Amazing work! I really appreciate that this initiative lowers the
> technical knowledge required for having a GuixSD system.
>
>> It uses guile-ncurses so that will have to be installed and be
>> in your load path.
>
> Would it make sense to add a check for it at configure time and
> conditionally compile and install the modules only if 'guile-ncurses' is
> found, like what is done for 'guile-json'?

I agree (though that can be done further down the road).

Ludo’.