[Marc Slemko] | | I'm not trying to be negative, but I really think this is far too | much to require of someone. Most of the SQL databases aren't | trivial to setup, and if you think that the sort of person who | doesn't like editing a text file will like installing and | configuring a SQL database...
you definitively have a point there, but I would still like to make the interface to the data-backend general enough to be able to plug in alternatives to flat files, dbm, btree etc. | > the administration client talks to the configuration server and | > presents the user with a GUI or a tty-interface. the client should be | > portable so people can use it on UNIX, Windows, Mac etc. and at this | > time it's not very important what language� we write it in. | | Erm... it is damn important if you want to find a good free | cross-platform GUI development environment that allows people to | compile it without installing all sorts of libraries. what comes to mind is Python and perhaps Java. -Bj�rn
