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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:30:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To:        HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, keithl@wakko.gil.net, chat@freebsd.org, config@freebsd.org, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970122102805.18621A-100000@dolphin.inna.net>
In-Reply-To: <199701210603.PAA20592@lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>

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Please don't remove the ability to edit the config file by hand.  I 
personally hate linux's kernel config tool.  I don't know how many would 
second that, but I am sure there are quite a few.

On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote:

> 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
> 

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.




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