[ros-dev] [GSOC]GUI first stage installer

[Andrew Green]

I'm looking to put in a proposal for gui 1st stage installer. I've
asked around a bit on IRC who would be the mentor. Though no one seems
to know. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be
great.

I was thinking of how it would be implemented. I know the gui mostly
exists in svn. so that simplifies that.

I was thinking that the parts of the project would be setting it up so
that as much code is shared between text-mode installer and gui
installer.

1st stage gui installer should be able to run in windows as well as
ros(this could simplify the install when using windows and make it
easy to test the installer)

Also fixing the functions that are used. As it seems at the moment
disk drives are not appearing as devices.

 I have been unable to find an api that creates partitions. I thought
this would be good rather than manipulating the disk directly as it
may provide the ability to create partitions for any file system as
long as a driver exists. Making it more flexible.

I am also rather excited about this project as the skills that I gain
from this could be used to make the disk manager, and other disk
utilities.


Any comments would be much appreciated.