Drawing graphics on terminal

[Jordan K Hubbard]

The principal problem with libh is too many chiefs and not enough 
indians.  Poor Alex and Max have done a HUGE amount of work on the 
system but it's large enough in scope that 2 people cannot hope to do 
it all by themselves, particularly when there's no relief shift to take 
things over when they get tired occasionally.  From an architectural 
perspective, there's nothing which would stop libh from fulfilling all 
the dreams I've seen laid out here (and a number people haven't even 
mentioned yet, like scriptable installs or alternate look-and-feels).  
The principle thing standing in the way of this and every other "let's 
get rid of sysinstall" effort, for that matter, is a lack of engineers.

This one's a bit like government.  Everyone has an opinion about how it 
should work or what it could be doing better, but very few people want 
to actually get involved in changing it. :-)

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:23 AM, Samy Al Bahra wrote:

> Though, before we all get excited about the possibilities of such an
> installer, what's happening with libh? Isn't it supposed to deal with
> all of sysintall's short-comings? All I see now is a lot of talk and no
> code, maybe such discussion should go to libh's mailing list (where we
> can talk design there)?
>
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Jordan K. Hubbard
Engineering Manager, BSD technology group
Apple Computer