[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

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