From owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 18:36:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156F816A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:36:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns.groovie.org (groovie.org [65.200.24.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEED343D46 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:36:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjenvey@groovie.org) Received: from astound-66-234-207-85.ca.astound.net ([66.234.207.85] helo=[192.168.0.103]) by ns.groovie.org with asmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1BXOyu-000I7G-TD; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:36:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200406061827.53216.david@usermode.org> References: <3684.192.168.0.1.1086515427.squirrel@192.168.0.1> <200406061827.53216.david@usermode.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <93337C88-B8B1-11D8-AD9B-000A959DA6A2@groovie.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Philip Jenvey Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:36:22 -0700 To: David Johnson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "ns.groovie.org", hasmessageblock similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details.> I'm planning on writing a protype of this idea using just the > functionality contained within the existing "useradd" utility. I've > > not particularly enamored of the tvision look and feel, but that's >> months until I get the spare time to devote to it though. > > -- > David Johnson [...] Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description --------------------------------------------------1% [score: 0.0000] 0.5 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated to libh code development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:36:26 -0000 On Jun 6, 2004, at 6:27 PM, David Johnson wrote: > > I'm planning on writing a protype of this idea using just the > functionality contained within the existing "useradd" utility. I've > also thought about writing a higher level ncurses toolkit, since I'm > not particularly enamored of the tvision look and feel, but that's > secondary to doing a prototype. It's probably going to be a couple of > months until I get the spare time to devote to it though. > > -- > David Johnson FYI -- I was looking around for a higher level curses toolkit, and I've noticed a couple projects: CDK - http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/ C based, comes with a perl api CTK - http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/tclextensions.html#ctkTbl TCL based NetBSD's Sushi project, which lets you configure the system (conf files) via a console interface, uses CDK. -- Philip Jenvey