From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 8 15:12:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA12846 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 15:12:26 -0800 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA12840 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 15:12:25 -0800 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA245546730; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 15:12:11 -0800 Message-Id: <199501082312.AA245546730@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA00972; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 10:11:08 +1100 From: "M.C Wong" Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 10:11:07 EDT Cc: cg@FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <13554.789447604@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 06, 95 7:00 pm X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 1. We have to make configuring as easy as possible for those users, who > > never want to look 'behind the scenes'. There should be a way to install > > and configure FreeBSD for *non-experts*! > > Well, I think we all agree to this, what we really need to agree on is > the *framework*. How does this all-singing and all-dancing > configuration environment work? Scripts? Some sort of TCL based > tool? What? We've had a few abortive attempts at this in the past, > but nothing that anybody could ever really use to build a complete > configuration management system! I guess this sort of framework should exist in both terminal mode as well as X11. In which case I believe ncurses and/or Soren's SVGA lib (? or the like) plays an important role, since upon fresh installation, not every machine will have X11 installed. Can Taligent's OO-framework philosophy apply well in this situation ? If so, this will make a good starting point. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)