From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 3 2:18:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B6A14EDD for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:18:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA21353; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 05:18:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 05:18:35 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Steven Young Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: menuconfig In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Steven Young wrote: > > Hiya. Although this doesn't seem like quite the right list to mail this > to, I'm sending it here for lack of a better alternative.. > > Anyway, I've started work on a visual ncurses-based kernel config file > editor. Therefore, I was wondering, is this a duplication of effort? Is > there already something out there that does this? > > If not, my basic plan is just to have something that looks a lot like > the visual boot-time config editor where the user adds everything s/he > wants from the "inactive" list to the "active" and eventually the utility > in question spits out a file. many people have offered, none have completed it. 2 things you'll need to take into account for usablity: for users: the ability to suck in a local config file for developers: an interface to make sure the tool is updated and follows LINT without getting rid of lint, perhaps LINT and the template file being auto generated... -Alfred > > Steve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message