Re: [Rule-list] Slinky enhancements

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:28 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> Michael and all,
>
> How close is slinky to internationalization? I would want the English
> language prompts to be fairly stable before asking others to translate
> them. What can I do to help with this?

I need to go through and clean everything up a bit. Haven't had time to 
work on this all summer. Hopefully I'll have some time in the near 
future. 

> I would also like to work on the slinky auto installer. That is an
> install to a system with one drive only to be fully dedicated to linux
> that would do the partitioning without user intervention. This will
> work in most slinky installs and avoid many of the hard questions that
> newbies stumble on.
>
> Should this be a slinky option or another program?

It could be done as a slinky option, I'd think. Go ahead and give it a 
try.

> What shell is slinky using now? Still busybox? What math is
> available and what syntax does it use? A link to the document would
> be great.

It's a busybox variant of the ash shell. Most ash syntax is acceptable. 
Math is possible, though I haven't even looked at this recently. Boot 
from the latest slinky disk, and try a few commands. ;)

> I worked on this earlier and decided to postpone refinement while
> slinky was undergoing rapid change. How stable is slinky now? How
> close to alpha?

I suppose it would almost qualify as alpha. Still needs some work, but 
it's mostly working, and hasn't been proven to destroy systems at will.

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