Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:25:55 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default / sysinstall II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505172324.291B-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <354F0071.957895CA@internationalschool.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> COAS (www.coas.org) does this for command line, curses, X, and Java, in
> a modular design so that configuration tools for other programs can be
> plugged in. It's also designed to be backwards compatible (i.e. changing
> files directly won't cause problems with later edits in coas), also it
> has options to show what changes are being made, source code available
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What would that look like?
Incidentally, would it be useful for the config program to do something
like rcs or CVS on the major config files automatically to allow easy
undos and (perhaps) multiple configurations? (Either by default or as an
option.)
Ben.
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980505172324.291B-100000>