Does there exist some form of *simple* windowing system, a la 
dialog(8) which we can use for all of this? I know the FreeBSD folks
made a libdialog but it's GPLed...

Andy.

Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> On 16-May-99 Simon Burge spoke unto us all:
> #  In the next couple of days I was going to send something to tech-install
> #  about making a better disklabel editor for sysinst, but also something
> #  that could handle multiple disks.
> 
> Actually.. I'm glad you posted before doing any actual work on it yet..
> 
> I'm currently working on a curses-based disklabel program now.. The idea is to
> be somewhat of a cross between solaris format, and AIX smit..   I'm a good 50%
> finished with it.. so I'd hate to see someone waste thier time, (or my time) on
> a totally separate version..
> 
> If you are fully intent on working on such a thing.. then I'd like to extend an
> offer to you (Simon) to coordinate and work together on it, rather than working
> on completely separate duplicate code(funtionality?).
> 
> #
> #  Hopefully sysinst will get to the stage where it's a useful program on
> #  an installed system as well (adding new packages, (re)configuring system
> #  config files) - maybe it would be good enough to keep disklabel(8) and
> #  use sysinst for more complex tasks.  Of the top of my head, making
> #  something that can handle multiple disks as a standalone program seems
> #  like overkill and would probably make integration with sysinst harder,
> #  but I'm open to ideas...
> 
> I'd like to see that as well..  and I consider this both a first step.. and a
> possible prototype for future uses.
> 
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