Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] YaST will be GPL [Virus checked]
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:28:11
Message-Id: 1079731678.1035.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] YaST will be GPL [Virus checked] by John Nilsson
1 On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:45, John Nilsson wrote:
2 > I think the best aproach to this is:
3 >
4 > 1. Standardize a configuration backend.
5 > Fileformat, parsers, filesystemlocation and that stuff
6 > 2. Convince developers to follow the standard.
7 > 3. Interface with it
8 > HTML, QT, GTK anything goes...
9 >
10 > My sugestions
11 > 1. Develop an XML-Shema for configuration, documentation and general
12 > meta-data.
13 > 2. Make step 1 good enough... it should be easier to follow the standard
14 > than to make you own configuration manager.
15 > 3. webmin?
16
17 Take a look at
18 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/research/config_tools.xml.
19
20 Join the gentoo-desktop-research list.
21
22 Thanks,
23 Donnie
24 --
25 Donnie Berkholz
26 Gentoo Linux

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