At 12:19 AM 9/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>We are all acutely aware of the problems the GUI causes when we manually 
>edit configuration files -- httpd.conf, aliases, virtusertable, and the 
>like.  It seems to me not very difficult to rewrite the GUI to use the 
>configuration files as base input when editing data, rather than the 
>PostgreSQL database.  All the config files are parseable, so deciphering 
>them into HTML forms and later recording the changes as the admin 
>originally laid them out seems feasible.
>
>Comments/thoughts?

It is feasible, raq2 did it just like that. There was no database. But I 
suspect, Cobalt evolved into the database method, as it provided an easier 
user interface.




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