ReactOS is paying Hermès Bélusca-Maïto to work on the ReactOS GUI setup mode for the next five months to finish the first-stage code as an alternative to the text-mode setup code that has been used to date when setting up a ReactOS installation.
Some of the key milestones to be focused on include:
- Finish partial-Winesync of setupapi.dll regarding CAB-file extraction;
- Move the FreeLdr bootloader installation choice step after the ROS disk/partition-choice step and JUST before the actual installation;
- Integrate registry settings callbacks (currently absent in the GUI setup);
- Add GPT support for the GUI Setup;
- Miscellaneous stuff (further cleanup, some refactorings, etc).
More details on this ReactOS funded initiative via the ReactOS.org blog . It's great to see the GUI setup mode hopefully coming together over the next half-year for hopefully making installing ReactOS more user-friendly for those that may be intimidated by the text-based setup mode currently employed.