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Icecube wrote:Are you going to make it a shell script? There are a number of GNU utilities native ported to Windows. This would be a rough example of the installation script required by the GUI.
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So here is a bash script to add the Vim editor to the dosapps folder and rebuild the iso image.
The only reasons it would be dependent on the version of UBCD is that it would 1) modify the menus to include the user's program and 2) depend on the directory structure on where to place the components.įor example, I really like the editor Vim. If the GUI was to support creating the bootable floppy images, that might take a little more work but wouldn't be bad. All it requires is to slap together a simple GUI, programatically modify the menus, and define the plugin's info file so the GUI can gather any needed info.
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In addition to exploding the iso image and using the existing ubcd2iso batch script, the GUI will use the plugin's install script. Basically, I am proposing a point-and-click GUI for those users who aren't familiar with the command prompt. I am not sure what compatibility issues you are thinking of and there will be no shared components involved. Of course, it's likely that others may not share this viewpoint.
Please give some comments on what you think.Īs702 wrote:Previous experience with such scripts has led me to be somewhat cautious of adopting such techniques they're rarely retro-active by design and may introduce compatibility issues if these scripts are dependent on modifying shared components.
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I plan on releasing all software and scripts under the GPL. Of course, if anyone is interested in helping program, they would be welcome to contribute. I would also need some additional people to help test the software. There is no point in writing the software unless the UBCD community thinks it would be a valuable tool. What I would want mainly is UBCD community support and testers. If there are enough people interested, though, I don't mind writing a graphical interface and making it easier for non-programmers to use. It is repetitive work, so I was considering writing some Linux shell scripts to automate the process. I have done everything this proposed software would do by hand. If users enjoyed using some of the open source software that was previously included in UBCD, this software would allow them to add it back in. Victor mentioned that he wanted to trim down UBCD 5.0 to a more basic set of core diagnostic and recovery utilities. The modified UBCDs wouldn't have to contain commercial software.
The goal would be to allow people who already own the commercial software to provide an easy method of combining it onto a single CD with the other great UBCD utilities. Since the modified CDs might contain commercial software, they of course cannot be distributed. The use of the "mod packages" allows the software to be expanded by the user without having to recompile any code. The user would be able to select only those software packages they wanted to include in the UBCD. The graphical interface would read in all of the "mod packages" in its directory and provide these as options to the user. These would be easy to create and would be specific to a particular piece of software. These would be plugable modules including information and scripts to handle a particular piece of software (Norton Ghost 12.0, McAfee VirusScan 5.02, etc). The design of this software would be based on "mod packages". This would also allow the user to add some trial-ware software like McAfee VirusScan Command Line Scanner to UBCD. The software would perform all the necessary tasks to explode the iso, build the disk image or copy the executables to the dosapps directories from their locations in the commercial software's install folder, modify the menu configuration files, and rebuild a new bootable iso image.
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I envision a Windows program (possibly cross-platform) that would allow the user to point to the UBCD iso image, point to the installation directory of a commercial software (such as Norton Ghost), and type in a new name for the iso image. I wanted to throw an idea out there to find how interested the community is in a graphical interface to rebuilding the UBCD iso image and allow the easy addition of commercial software, trial-ware, and other open source software not included in UBCD.