Hi Philip, It should be very little - as far as I can see - it should in fact be working - it just isn't yet (I'll bet it's a small problem though), and then packaged so it can be installed with relative ease.
To give more idea -there is some major bug that's making it exit without an error message on launch - dunno what that bug is - that needs to be fixed. The windows client should be able to take connection details from a config file, connect to a postgresql server with an outkafe database, and then log in etc. Virtually all this code is written, it simply needs to be properly ported, packaged and shipped - by somebody with the experience to do so (I work as exclusively on Linux as you do on windows :p ) Of course the packaged version should also include whatever dll's are needed for a windows app to be a postgresql client. Are you up for giving it a shot ? You don't REALLY need a Linux server, you could just set up a postgresql server on windows, load the OutKafe table-scheme and manually generate one user to test with. A.J. PS. If you're really interested, I suggest we take it offlist at this point as it's becoming less and less lazarus related :) On 6/3/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A.J., Still sounds interesting. Could you write a few sentences about what needs to be done to finish the Windows client? What's necessary for development? I work exclusively in Windows and OS X, but don't use Linux for anything and don't have access currently to a Linux machine. Thanks. -Phil -----Original Message----- From: A.J. Venter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 6/2/2007 7:40 PM To: lazarus@miraclec.com Subject: Re: [lazarus] OutKafe 5.1.0 Released ! On 6/3/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sound interesting. Maybe you could include that description on your Web page. Heh, fair enough - though I thought I basically had :p > > Where does OutKafe run? Does the cafe have a network server or something that the cafe's computers are hooked up to? OutKafe comprises basically three parts (this I KNOW is on the website). The postgresql database server does all the network serving, so I don't code any of that, I just interact with it. OutKafe has: 1) A daemon which counts down time on logged in accounts (it's done centrally for security reasons) 2) An administration tool which allows the icafe operator to sell time, create user accounts, reset passwords, define offers etc. 3) Client programs which let a user log in, counts him down and logs him out again. Currently only the Linux client is in a working state. The win32 client is very close - but I need somebody with genuine windows coding experience to help me finish it. There is also a WIFI client very similiar to what you describe below, but that is not very complex and at this stage barely started. > > I guess I'm not familiar with Internet cafes like this. Usually here the cafe has wireless and you get a login code for your laptop when you buy a coffee. That is common in some countries, here in the developing world the kind with computers hooked up that you buy time on is still very common, for many people such outlets ARE their offices. Having a GPL'd tool to manage them is an important (I believe) way to ensure software freedom in the developing world. OutKafe is the only such tool out there (OpenKIOSK is only partially free software - I'm not aware of any other free projects that are still actively developed though there are quite a few proprietory ones like smartlaunch). Of course the whole thing is also done in Lazarus and is one of the oldest continuing lazarus developments (the original app was started in November 2002, the Lazarus website carried a story on the 3.0 release in May 2005). Ciao A.J. -- A.J. Venter CEO - OutKast Solutions C.C. http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za Cell: +27 83 455 9978 Fax: +27 21 413 2800 Office: +27 21 591 6766 _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
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