Miscellaneous design notes and plans should be maintained here.

Calamares structure

Calamares is currently split as follows:

1. libcalamares - The back-end library.

• Only depends on QtCore, yaml-cpp, Python and Boost.Python.
• Provides a job queue and generic jobs.
• Comes with 3 job interfaces: C++, Python and process (the latter is very limited).

2. libcalamaresui - The front-end library.

• Same dependencies as libcalamares, plus QtWidgets and other Qt modules.
• Comes with a module loading system, for different kinds of plugins.
• Supports branding components.
• Presents a bunch of pages in a scripted order, enqueues jobs in the back-end library.

3. calamares - The main executable.

• A thin wrapper around libcalamaresui; starts up and plugs together all the parts.