From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 04:13:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA02108 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:13:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA02088 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA22587; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:14:14 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits To: Amancio Hasty cc: Eivind Eklund , khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-Reply-To: <199803021208.EAA10350@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > I never said that anything that configures system remotely should be > > written in shell. Perl is adequate, but I rather prefer C++, which is > > still more flexible and efficient than java. > > Yeap, I have to agree that C++ is significantly faster than Java for system > configuration 8) > > BTW: you forgot who was going to write the nice X stuff for a C++ based program > that is if we are still talking about a GUI tool . If the content of "Subject" field still applies -- Netscape, Inc. plus someone who will fix their screwups with configuration handling. Or anyone else. -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message