Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:29 am +0200 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 5:08 PM +0100 2004-09-22, Ian Eiloart wrote: I think that what is called for is an installer package, using one of the various installer systems out there. Now, that would NOT entail creating an applica

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:08 PM +0100 2004-09-22, Ian Eiloart wrote: I think that what is called for is an installer package, using one of the various installer systems out there. Now, that would NOT entail creating an application, just writing some installer config files. The problem is that you have to do this ac

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:56 am +0200 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do you mean by "a simple GUI front end"? I mean, even the simplest X11R6 application is going to be larger than the entire Python/Mailman project, even if it's just the graphical version of "H

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:32 AM -0500 2004-09-22, Jon Roland wrote: I don't understand how you could possibly accomplish this. Are you proposing that the Python developers create an entire new Graphical User Interface, to compete with X11R6/Gnome/KDE and the like, and then somehow serve this remotely via the I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Jon Roland
Brad Knowles wrote: At 1:09 AM -0500 2004-09-22, Jon Roland wrote: it seems like it would be useful to have an alternative of running a python GUI that does the same thing without having to run the web server when the use for it is so limited. Just a suggested item for the to-do list. I don'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:09 AM -0500 2004-09-22, Jon Roland wrote: I've figured that out, and I can certainly see why it makes sense when the list administrator is not directly on the machine that hosts mailman, but it seems like it would be useful to have an alternative of running a python GUI that does the same

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
Mark Sapiro wrote: As far as running the a web server is concerned, You don't have to, but that's the GUI list administration and user interface. No web server -> no GUI for even these functions. I've figured that out, and I can certainly see why it makes sense when the list administrator is not d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Roland >Thanks, Mark, for taking the time to respond. > >Mark Sapiro wrote: >> It is unclear to me where you are at this point. Have you read the >> INSTALL file in the top level of the source distribution and done all >> of that? > >I have now. It was not in the /var/mailman directory tree,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
Thanks, Mark, for taking the time to respond. Mark Sapiro wrote: It is unclear to me where you are at this point. Have you read the INSTALL file in the top level of the source distribution and done all of that? I have now. It was not in the /var/mailman directory tree, but in the /usr/share/doc/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Roland wrote: >This is my first message to the list. I have used listservs for years as an >ordinary subscriber, but the time has come to set one up on my local Linux >machine, running Fedora Core 2. I have the latest Mailman installed, by default >in /var/mailman, but after wending through

[Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
This is my first message to the list. I have used listservs for years as an ordinary subscriber, but the time has come to set one up on my local Linux machine, running Fedora Core 2. I have the latest Mailman installed, by default in /var/mailman, but after wending through the volumes of online