On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:13:09AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > Now, for the ncurses part. It seems like it would be very, very nice to > have a minimal admin menu using ncurses or newt (with the python snack > module) or dialog. Each of these has a python module, so hopefully it > should be fairly easy. I've never done any text-based GUI programming, > but I'm willing to try to whip up something. Are there any experts here > that could give some advice about what to use or how to do it (or whip > something up even faster)? It seems that an interface that at least has > the options to create a remote ssh account, set up sage to start on > bootup, and set the networking information for the box (DHCP or a static > address) would answer some of the issues above. In the future, we could > add to the menu and keep things simple for non-unix people.
Wouldn't it be much easier to program and use if the vmware image would start a web server (presumably something from twisted) and provide control panel from the default IP address? All of these configuration things (which don't involve vmware player) are quite doable from a web interface. This is would fit in to the sage web interface idea and also be quite similar to the things that anyone needs to know to set up any old router that they buy for their home network. All you have to do then is start the image in vmware player, wait a suitable period of time, load up your web-browser and go to http://192.168.x.x. -- Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
