Re: [gentoo-dev] Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] YaST will be GPL [Virus checked]

[John Nilsson]

I think the best aproach to this is:

1. Standardize a configuration backend.
	Fileformat, parsers, filesystemlocation and that stuff
2. Convince developers to follow the standard.
3. Interface with it
	HTML, QT, GTK anything goes...

My sugestions
1. Develop an XML-Shema for configuration, documentation and general
meta-data.
2. Make step 1 good enough... it should be easier to follow the standard
than to make you own configuration manager.
3. webmin?

-John



On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:14, xtv@×××××.de wrote:
> Corvus Corax wrote:
>
> > A possible solution to the problem could be some sort of
> > "easy configuration tool contest"
> > where beginner user could donate via paypal or such for a winners price,
> > given out later for the best configuration tool written.
>
> A nice idea, but possible not the right for gentoo.. Existing gentoo-users
> have no real demand for an easy config tool and the people who have the
> demand wont sponsor a gentoo project because they dont know it.. This
> approach maybe would work for common linux configuration system.. But I
> doubt there would be enough money acquired to pay even one developer. The
> only solution I see is that somebody is coding such a tool who really likes
> to code such a tool, maybe prooving he is better than microsoft in
> designing point-and-click-config-tools :-)... Well, why not, there exist
> even people who enjoy writing a spreadsheet ;-)
>
> > or something like this, -- wadda you think?
>
> I would think somebody should open a project at sourceforge and starting:
> .) analysing existing config-tools like linuxconf, yast and webmin
> .) analysing if it is reasonable to reengineer yast to a sane design
> .) analysing if it is more reasonable to add to existing conf-tools some
> good default-configs and some wizard-like tools
>
> regards,
> Thomas
>
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