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Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) 
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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
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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