Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with Electron

Re:Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with... by butz on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:34PM (#17022249)

Why not GTK? Gnome developers should make "standard" Linux installer - Software app works pretty good and fast.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with... by craftyguy on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @02:07PM (#17023130)

I feel like at this point, we should just be glad that Canonical is not creating a brand new API/framework/specification/"standard", and actually using an existing one.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with... by eliaspro on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:52PM (#17025548)

Reinventing the wheel... there's the fantastic Calamares Installer Framework which solves exactly this problem: https://calamares.io/

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with... by craftyguy on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:08PM (#17025699)

> Reinventing the wheel

Canonical is notorious for doing this. The silver lining in this case is that they aren't reinventing all of the pieces of the wheel..

Yea, Calamares is a really cool project. It's a shame Canonical isn't using it.

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