[lokisetup] text installs with components are broken

[Timothee Besset]

Well .. this would be for a version 2.0 I suppose, cause it would be
nearly a full rewrite. The problem is that the state machine depends on
the UI too. In text mode you prompt for more things individually etc.

TTimo

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:41:29 -0500 (EST)
"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:

> 
> > As I had discussed with Stephane some time ago, I am adding some code to
> > use per-component eula items. The problem is that in 1.6.1 it looks like
> > the text mode installation will fail if there are components (segfaults).
> > I'm not sure wether I'm gonna try to look it up, or implement that
> > directly at option level instead of component.
> 
> Obviously, as a segfault, we should fix this, but I think that we should
> start discussing how to decouple the interface from the implementation. I
> feel like gtk_ui and the text-based ui are actually separate applications
> that kinda-sorta-not-really do the same thing. Ideally there should be
> interface-independent code that does the install stuff, and calls into the
> front ends to interact with the user.
> 
> This would also let us get a Qt front end on there eventually, or a win32
> version, blahblahblah.
> 
> --ryan.
> 
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