On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:30:53AM +0800, CYWare wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody out there built a program using ncurses in a production > environment? > > We are switching one of our clients' POS systems from DOS to Linux. I don't > really want to use a GUI based interface (X,GTK,QT) since most of the POS > machines have only 16 to 32MB RAM. Of course, POS can be considered > mission-critical, since any failures directly affect the customer, which is > why I want to make sure the tools we use are reliable.
I have done something of this sort for my friend's video store, to migrate away from a very old Clipper-based system. Basically it consisted of a SQL backend (PostgreSQL), and a 1200-line Perl program that used DBI to connect to the SQL server, and used the Curses::Widgets module from CPAN. It was a week's worth of work, but only two days of that spent coding (it was also my first non-book exercise program in Perl). Most of the rest of the time was spent talking with my friend to find out exactly what he wanted to happen with the program. I got the thing to run on a Slackware 3.4-based machine on a *386* with only 8 megs of RAM! Eventually, when the database grew to thousands of entries we decided to upgrade to a Pentium with 16MB. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
