[EROS-Arch] Installers

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap@cs.jhu.edu
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:10:38 -0500


Joerg Bornschein wrote:
> 
> You are assuming the constructor build in phase 0 is directly given
> to end-users....

Certainly not. This phase is run by the installer.

> Therefore there is only a single "capability handout" user interface:
>  The shell starting a [setup|enduser] application.

I think we are mostly in complete agreement, except about this last
part. It is desirable to have a registry of what was given to whom, so
the shell probably isn't the best tool to use here. A seperate
installation shell is probably worthwhile.