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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@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 23:35:32
Message-Id: 200403192340.19575.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] YaST will be GPL [Virus checked] by John Nilsson
1 On Friday 19 March 2004 20:45, 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 If you want to replace all the text-based config files with something, now is
11 not the time. Novell will probably port NDS from Netware onto SuSE. Chances
12 are that they will want to try and re-establish NDS as a viable alternative
13 to Microsoft's Active Directory, and they'll open NDS up to do so.
14
15 Best regards,
16 Stu
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