From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 29 17:00:50 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA22855 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:00:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA22847 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:00:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA27883; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:00:21 -0800 (PST) To: "Sean Batson (Sunbeach)" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPCS Utility In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Dec 1996 20:05:35 -0400." Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:00:21 -0800 Message-ID: <27879.851907621@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What's the latest with FreeBSD equivalent of AIX's SMIT interface? > Give me some specs and I think I can come up with an equivalent. > (roughly 6 to 9 months). The problem is that this is a multi-layered problem. You need to write the CLI utilities which "back" your SMIT-like tool, you need to write some GUI tools better than libdialog (which stinks) for presenting the interfaces and, finally, you need to decide which goals you're going to attack first. We've talked about doing this for 2 years now, and we always get bogged down in the process of providing the specs you request here (or we get an initial set of objectives laid down, then nobody finds the time to write anything and no progress is made). Mike, anything from that guy who was threatening to do at least the GUI components? Jordan