Forgot to reply-all... :-/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Template system [was Webconfiguration] Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 09:15:15 -0600 From: Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jaime Nebrera Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jaime Nebrera Herrera wrote:
Hi all,
I have been following the discussion about the need for a "graphical" system to configure LEAF systems. As it has been already commented, one of the daunting tasks is to be able to work through the easy system and keep the power of direct editing.
We faced that question some time ago. We planned for some kind of graphical config system for Lince (Bering derivate) and that was the hardest decission to make. How to make the config easy and pretty? How to maintain the power of the /etc files?
We use E-Smith also and love its conceptual design. For those that have never heard about it I'm going to try to explain it a bit. ESSG gives the admin an easy and very integrated "control pannel" or web system trough you can configure most of the features of the server. This way, any non expert can configure and use the system with ease. At the same time, it gives you acces to the /etc files, so an expert or VAR can make the modifications that are needed. How is this done?
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What do you think? I believe this conceptual design could solve a lot of problems to the Webconfigurator guys (independence of LEAF variant, not needed to parse very different files).
Please, feel free to make any suggestion or ask whatever question you have.
Sounds like a decent solution to me. It might also tie in nicely with a more advanced packaging system. I was looking at using text-based flat-file databases to keep track of package information...the same database "routines" (mostly in shell, with a couple of small c programs) could drive the described configuration system, as well. -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
