Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:52:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ESR's CML2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104111047320.22144-100000@aphex.newgold.net> In-Reply-To: <3AD46C3A.FF68091D@pitt.edu>
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Of course, if ESR could do something like this, any munchkin could. I could probably write something in Perl that would generate something from a file like with a format like this for options: option | OPTION_NAME | Description And for misc. directives directive | argument | Description (i.e. machine | i386 | The architecture for configuration) And then for devices device at {location1, location2} flags {possible, flag, values} etc. And then just format it nicely and use dropdown lists/multiple choice prompts for places where you have multiple values (including the ability to choose freeform/custom fiels), etc. I'm not offering to do this (yet) but if someone thinks this would be useful, it wouldn't be too hard (not hard at all even) and I imagine using Perl/Tk or something to have a gui config frontend wouldn't be hard, same for using dialog (instead of fullblown ncurses) for menu-based config. Does this sound like something we'd want, or is it kind of a ... extravagency (did I even spell that right?)? Just a thought. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > I think it's GPLd yes, but the real show stopper is that it requires > Python. For some people, adding PERL is already too much bloat....now > imagine Python. > > > Pedro. > > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > At 09:27 AM 4/10/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > >I was reading ESR's announcement of the 1.0 release of his > > >CML2 (Configuration menu language), which he wrote for the > > >linux kernel: > > > http://lwn.net/daily/cml2-1.0.php3 > > >The main web page of the project is at > > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ > > > > > >It looked interesting to me. Is there any possibility that it > > >could be used in FreeBSD, to make configuration easier for > > >beginners? > > > > Not if it's GPLed, as I expect it is. > > > > --Brett > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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