From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 14:36:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ninsei.com (24.64.9.93.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.9.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E91161553B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dreamer@freelow.ninsei.com) Received: (qmail 20276 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Mar 1999 22:35:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Mar 1999 22:35:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:35:42 -0700 (MST) From: Steven Young To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: visual config editor 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 Hiya. Work is progressing pretty nicely on the visual config editor (which is named vconfig, pretty creative I thought). The main time waster right now is creating the DESC file. Basically, vconfig runs through LINT, extracts all the information it needs from each entry in the LINT file, and then does a lookup in the DESC file for additional information. In the DESC file, there is a help text for each option, a list of arguments that are required for that option, and a list of arguments that aren't required, but can be present anyway. My question: Does this seem like the most efficient way to do things? Is there somewhere else I can find the information that I'm currently putting in the DESC file? Is it true that, by contributing in my own little way to the FreeBSD project, I will instantly become irresistable to members of the opposite sex? Steve. PS: If anyone wants to help me in creating the DESC file, I'd be much appreciative. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message