Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-06 Thread ddainese
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:39:56 -0700 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> 4) It should be completely transparent for who don't want to use it. > Huh? Can run in non-interactive-use-defaults mode if desired, if that's what > you mean. > No; I mean that who don't want to use the configuration

Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > It seems to me that much effort is being reproduced on this particular > subject. I agree completely with Wichert's spec -- as I recall it was > adapted from an RFC he found somewhere, that had been through > implementation. That kind of testing tends to solidify a s

Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-05 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 09:39:56PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > At least 1 through 3 are already very well laid out via the debian > configuration management specification. See > http://www.debian.org/~wakkerma/config6/ > > I have a nearly-done implementation of it, too: > http://kitenet.net/programs

Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) It must have many interfaces (GUI-base, Web-based, etc.). Check. Plain old text, dialog, gtk, web, cany others someone cares to write, all done. > 2) The files where the configurations are stored must be easy to edit >with a normal text editor. Check. Can suppor

Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-04 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Diego" == ddainese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Diego> Hi, Diego> I've a proposal for a configuration tool; [...] Diego> My proposal is a Guile-based system similar to the emacs Diego> configuration system: emacs has a lisp builtin interpreter Diego> that parse arbitra

A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-04 Thread ddainese
Hi, I've a proposal for a configuration tool; IMHO the features that such tool should have are: 1) It must have many interfaces (GUI-base, Web-based, etc.). 2) The files where the configurations are stored must be easy to edit with a normal text editor. 3) It must be extremely flexible (more