From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 16:22:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25384 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxy.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25307 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:21:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rssh@grad.kiev.ua) Received: from d4 ([10.0.0.44]) by proxy.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA25216; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:20:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from rssh@grad.kiev.ua) Message-Id: <199806242320.CAA25216@proxy.grad.kiev.ua> From: "Ruslan Shevchenko" To: "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: , , Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:20:46 +0430 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'll assume you were being only partially facetious and actually > answer the question. :-) > > A modern 90's-kinda-approach would be something like this: > > [GUI tool from hell] > [generic namespace layer] > [transform layer] > .. traditional ascii files .. > + good API interface (i.e. standart configuration library. primer (not very good) is SCO Open Server.) + extensebility. (exising standart format of description of some subsystem, like SNMP MIB) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message