Re: [leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-08 Thread Ewald Wasscher
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 16:15, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:12, Erich Titl wrote: > > - Let's try to build the configurator in a modular way, someone on the list > > suggested to build kind of plugin to a generic configuration webpage which > > would have to be implementd in each p

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-06 Thread Manfred Schuler
Mike Noyes schrieb: > Manfred, > Is your perl4 package different than the one already in our repository? Yes - it is compiled with gcc 2.95.3. If the tales about this compiler version are true, it should gain some speed. - it is linked static against libdb - it does not contain libm, libm.lrp

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Noyes
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:50, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > If someone wants to play around with perl4, I can make the lrp > > publicly available. It passes the tests in the makefile and I > > tested the server example of the manpage on a bering system. > > Please make your perl4 package availab

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-06 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> Readability is a question of coding style. In any language you can > write code that is not easy to understand. > > > but the latter is more easily to understand. > It is also a question of experience with the language. > My boss is a experienced C programmer on DOS and embedded systems. > But

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-06 Thread Manfred Schuler
Charles Steinkuehler schrieb: > > > some remarks about using forth: > > - certainly forth is missing all that nice pattern matching > > like awk or perl, all this has to be coded. > > Well, "C" is missing these as well, until you load a massive standard > library :) > > > - I assume that even

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-06 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> some remarks about using forth: > - certainly forth is missing all that nice pattern matching > like awk or perl, all this has to be coded. Well, "C" is missing these as well, until you load a massive standard library :) > - I assume that even arrays are not available in forth Not as part o

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-02 Thread Manfred Schuler
Hi, some remarks about using forth: - certainly forth is missing all that nice pattern matching like awk or perl, all this has to be coded. - I assume that even arrays are not available in forth - because forth uses very unusual semantics (reverse polish notation) it is not easy to understan

Re: [leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-02 Thread Mike Noyes
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:12, Erich Titl wrote: > - Let's try to build the configurator in a modular way, someone on the list > suggested to build kind of plugin to a generic configuration webpage which > would have to be implementd in each package. I think this is an excellent > idea and we sho

RE: [Leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-02 Thread Mike Noyes
Everyone, I propose the creation of a config tree in our CVS src tree. All of the components necessary for this project can be placed there, and write access granted to team members. The structure of the config tree is left to the team members discretion. Example: leaf/src/config +

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-09-02 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello Erich, list. sorry for the late reaction ( I did have to work yesterday.) > Hi everyone > > I like Eric's 2nd drawing and the model it presents. I am XML illiterate > and therefore can not judge how complex a translator for the actual > templates to be deployed might be. This translator

RE: [Leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-01 Thread Richard Amerman
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Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-01 Thread guitarlynn
On Sunday 01 September 2002 15:08, Erich Titl wrote: > Mike > > you seem to be knowledgeable about the copyright stuff. I am about to > paint an entry page for the config stuff and would like to use the > LEAF logo for it. Is there a problem? Erich, Would you mind getting with Richard Amerman an

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-01 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 13:08, Erich Titl wrote: > you seem to be knowledgeable about the copyright stuff. I am about to paint > an entry page for the config stuff and would like to use the LEAF logo for > it. Is there a problem? Erich, Since I created it there is no problem. It can be used for a

[Leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-09-01 Thread Erich Titl
Mike you seem to be knowledgeable about the copyright stuff. I am about to paint an entry page for the config stuff and would like to use the LEAF logo for it. Is there a problem? Thanks Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-08-31 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello Lynn, Charles , List > On Saturday 31 August 2002 14:21, Eric Wolzak wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I agree with Erich that it would be wise to get an architecture > > before thinking about the implementation. > > IMHO it should be : > > -easy to configure. > > -flexible , so adding new packa

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-08-31 Thread guitarlynn
On Saturday 31 August 2002 14:21, Eric Wolzak wrote: > Hello all, > > I agree with Erich that it would be wise to get an architecture > before thinking about the implementation. > IMHO it should be : > -easy to configure. > -flexible , so adding new packages is possible without much > programming.

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-08-31 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> So I came up with the next Idea: > http://wolzak.de/leaf/config2.jpg I like this better. Another thing I'd like to see in all architecture discussions of a configuration system is alternate display front/back ends. I'd like to see a simple text menu type system that could extend and replace l

[Leaf-devel] Webbased Configuration

2002-08-31 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello all, I agree with Erich that it would be wise to get an architecture before thinking about the implementation. IMHO it should be : -easy to configure. -flexible , so adding new packages is possible without much programming. -flexible 2- so it is possible to use the same system on oxygen,

RE: [leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-08-30 Thread Richard Amerman
rator" and "Web Config - sh-httpd". Richard Amerman -Original Message- From: Erich Titl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri 8/30/2002 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [leaf-devel] We

[leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-08-30 Thread Erich Titl
Hi folks Thanks for the hearty welcome I did a bit of a fly by on all the summaries presented lately on the Webbased config subject. I would like to make a few suggestions, not necessarily technical ones because I feel the matter has been well understood. - Could we keep this on leaf-devel, i

Re: [Leaf-devel] Webbased configuration

2002-08-29 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> Hi Eric, Lynn, Charles > > Asking for permission to come aboard. Dive right in! You'll either sink or swim. Please don't swim within 30 minutes of eating. Remember your life-preserver. Go with the flow, swim against the current, or maybe just try treading water...your preference. Please keep y