Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:30:07 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, keithl@wakko.gil.net, chat@freebsd.org, config@freebsd.org, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970122102805.18621A-100000@dolphin.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <199701210603.PAA20592@lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>
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Please don't remove the ability to edit the config file by hand. I personally hate linux's kernel config tool. I don't know how many would second that, but I am sure there are quite a few. On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote: > In article <17176.853741813@time.cdrom.com> > jkh@time.cdrom.com writes: > > >> Maybe I'll get my act together soon and get things moving on that > >> front again, but I'll say here and now that if someone ELSE has a > >> brilliant shining picture in their head and the will to execute it in > >> C, C++ and/or TCL (no PERL please - we haven't room on the boot floppy > >> for that approach!), I'd love to talk to them. A fresh set of eyes on > >> FreeBSD's installation and configuration framework would be > >> interesting too. > > No perl? I like it but I admit it's too fat :-) (my second favourite > is C/Tk). > > I started working on translating LINT config file to SGML file and > implementing the translator (using sgmls with DTD file) of this > meta-config file to ordinary config files. > > I think this enables us to make automated config file generator tools > like Linux's menuconfig and xconfig smartly. > > I think that the same approach can be used for automatic and > semi-automatic system configuration tool for network and storage > management. > > What do you think about it? > > (I'm planning to port sysinstall to X11 :-). I think it's not > difficult to install FreeBSD from X interface like RedHat Linux) > > -- > HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi > hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp > hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org > Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
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