From owner-freebsd-config Wed Jan 22 07:30:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA09094 for config-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA09088; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dolphin.inna.net (jamie@dolphin.inna.net [206.151.66.2]) by tyger.inna.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10225; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:42:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:30:07 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi 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 ...) In-Reply-To: <199701210603.PAA20592@lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.