Simon Wise <[email protected]> writes: [...]
> If you have the dedication to GUI and the resources of a global > mega-corporation it is possible to make a similar GUI actually respect > the under-lying settings ... but it is incredibly hard work, way > beyond almost any organisation. OSX did achieve this Not at all, actually. It just means the front-end code has to work directly with the backend config files instead of storing its configuration in some more 'flashy' format, eg, xml-files or some ad hoc created binary format and then blindly overwriting the 'engine' configuration whenever the front-end configuration changes. I've implemented something like this in the past for creating IPsec VPN configurations via web GUI while retaining fully editable racoon configuration files in the backend. I conjecture this runs afoul of the "everything anybody else ever did was completely wrong" aka "don't understand a word of it, what a brainless mess" approach people whose experience is inversely proportional to their self-esteem like to take towards anything. NB: That's a perfectly stable condition of wanton ignorance and can be kept up for fourty years in a row. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
