Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-20 Thread wlanmac
Hi, I think this is a good idea. Though, it isn't the 'break-up' I imagined when I first started reading your message. I just assumed the LuCI webif was minimal with the option of adding tabs -- much like the original webif. I suppose the questions I still have about the LuCI webif project are:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-19 Thread Steven Barth
Hello Everyone, much work has been done this week and thanks to your feedback and opinions we are happy to inform you about the latest project updates. After the recent discussions about user-friendly vs. full-featured interfaces we decided to split up LuCI into two parts LuCI Administration

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-15 Thread Steven Barth
Hello wlanmac, at first thank you for your feedback. will it be difficult to remove overall or will the LuCI code be mixed up with non-GUI scripts? It's just a separate set of packages: not more, not less. As for LuCI, I would like to know more about why Lua and hence LuCI? You say It's not

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-15 Thread Steven Barth
Yeah, sounds like many scripting languages... except shell ;-) Agreed, there is always some distribution specific glue needed. I'm leaning toward a 'meta configuration' (in XML) which can be edited, verified, and translated into distro specific configurations. Ah I see you added another

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Baker
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:38:24PM +0200, wlanmac wrote: But if you are using the Gargoyle approach - that is not bad but simply a different approach - you have to mess up with Shell and learn JavaScript or in your case *yourFrontendLanguage*. True. But, I'd argue that JavaScript

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-15 Thread wlanmac
Sorry, but in some respects I look at all these web interfaces and just cringe; the webif was never meant to be a lifelong ambition, it should only be a very thin layer between uci and the browser. All of the schema and validation, as well as the i18n should actually be handled on the uci

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [ANN] LuCI - Lua Configuration Interface

2008-07-14 Thread wlanmac
Hi, Sounds good, but perhaps not for everyone. This will be integrated into the main firmware or will it always be a package? I'm not concerned about it being installed per default in the OpenWrt-built firmware, but will it be difficult to remove overall or will the LuCI code be mixed up with