On zaterdag 11 mei 2002 16:13, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Well, I might be inclined to do *something* if it were GPL'ed. Perhaps I'd work on a new set of SuSEconfig scripts to make YaST work directly with config files like I'd like it to, or help with a "YaST.org" web site/public relations or something like that. As it stands, I see no reason to contribute any work concerning a new SuSEconfig interface to YaST or anything else, since my work would go no where.
Would you be willing to contribute to a config app that is really system and distro independent and is open source already? An application having backends to configure the system and to communicate with different frontend types. The latter can be a GUI alla YaST2 (QT based), A GTK based GUI, a (G)UI alla YaST1, webmin, etc, etc and if I'm not mistaken they can communicate remotely. Especially for you this is interesting as you can make it work on Mandrake, though SuSE users will benefit from that work too. The project is calles XST and references to it can be found underneath. And if one is missing a nice graphical download and installer program one could try synaptic. More information about synaptic at: http://distro.conectiva.com.br/projetos/46/ http://enigma.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=715 I believe there are good alternatives to Yast1, so why bother to get the old and retired application back into service? More about XST at: http://primates.ximian.com/~chema/xst/ The good thing of XST is that it is distro - and frontend independent. So it can be with an ascii frontend e.g. So if developments are started to maintain yast1, why don't one help to maintain/improve XST? This email of where XST is going has been posted recently: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-April/000695... it continues here: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-May/000698.h... http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=setup-tools-backends http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/helix-setup-tools.html -- Richard Bos Democracy cost a fortune