On 25/12/2010 14:51, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 08:26 +0100, Vaclav Klecanda wrote:
Hi all,
I wonder if somebody have thought or even started some research about samba4
web based management tool. I am convinced that such tool will greatly
support success of samba4. I know about SWAT but it is PHP based and I don't
know the level of support of samba4.
SWAT is written in C, and isn't very easy to extend. Samba4 one had a
embedded java-script based web front end, but this was abandoned when we
moved to python as our internal scripting language.
We are not opposed to a Python based GUI for Samba, but are concerned
that any effort in this area would not only need to be properly
maintained (the SWAT2 that Samba4 had originally was very poorly
maintained), it would also need to be automatically tested. This is
difficult to do for a AJAX GUI application (the current standard for web
GUIs).
I didn't invest most time, but it seems that Zombie
(http://zombie.labnotes.org/) could be an interesting option to try to
see if we can unit test web interface as well.
An idea for GSOC ?
Matthieu.
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