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#1 2008-09-22 01:26:40
- ljshap
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Source Code for ARCH Installation Program
Where would I find the source code for the Arch installation program. After a long sentence to the desert of Visual Basic, I am trying to get back to C/C++ programming as a hobbyist. The last time I used C/C++, both MS and Borland had their own non ANSI implementation of the graph.h libraries which I would now replace with ncurses. The section of the program where you select packages would be the most usefull since it has scrolling and check box functionality. This seems to provide all the functionality you would find in drop-down or combo boxes in a GUI environment.
I appologize if this should have been posted to the programming forum, but its not really a programming question.
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#2 2008-09-22 01:48:57
- stonecrest
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Re: Source Code for ARCH Installation Program
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=instal … ;a=summary
It's written in bash.
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#3 2008-09-22 02:35:43
- ljshap
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Re: Source Code for ARCH Installation Program
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=instal … ;a=summary
It's written in bash.
Thanks for the quick reply, but you did get me by surprise. The installer really does show the power of bash. I only took a quck look, but I'll try again when I'm less tired.
It really is the most concise and logical installation program I've seen.
Thanks Again!
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#4 2008-09-22 03:20:59
- neotuli
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Re: Source Code for ARCH Installation Program
The gui part you're interested in uses dialog. You might want to look at the source code for that if you're interested in code that uses ncurses.
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#5 2008-09-22 12:14:45
- ljshap
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Re: Source Code for ARCH Installation Program
The gui part you're interested in uses dialog. You might want to look at the source code for that if you're interested in code that uses ncurses.
I took a look at the part of the code that uses dialog and its pretty awesome. It looks extremely powerful without having to do a lot of GUI programming. I knew bash was powerful, but I just got even more impressed with its functionality.
Thanks for the info and another "eye-opener".
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