From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 29 13:06:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21182 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21026 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA07178; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:05:08 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34D0EF06.E6263466@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:05:10 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) References: <15062.886107413@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" TCl vs. Java, any others for the melting pot? As far as extending any 'Java' client, all you need (and I think someones allready mentioned this) is a system similar to SNMP MIB's, i.e. directions to the client where to put check boxes, text fields, what they should contain (labels), how to verify them (field masks etc.) - I'll freely admit it's a thin line between Java, TCL, cgi & someones bound to mention Active-X Kp Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Just to add fuel to the fire - I like my 'admind' idea (then again I would) - > > I did like the idea of a Win32 (i.e. 95 / NT ) front end, but I'm starting to > > go off it a bit in favour of 'Java' (OK, I know, don't hit me too hard) - as > > it will look 'similar', but be runnable on Unix itself (which is probably a > > big plus ;-) and hopefully someday we'll have a nice FreeBSD setup that boots > > off a CD straight into a VGA x-server with Netscape running, and off you go ( > > And how do you intend to dynamically extend the client in this > scenario? The server will upload java code on demand, or what > exactly? That sort of thing sure is a lot easier with TCL. ;) > > Jordan