On Sunday 11 May 2003 20:06, Thomas Jones wrote:
On Saturday 10 May 2003 11:08, Thomas Jones wrote:
Has anyone here played with the YaST2 Component Architecture?
I have been reading and researching the documentation, and it is extremely interesting. I can forsee an infinite amount of uses for this on a production system.
The ease of use, and user interface would make a great addition to a network resource for "green" engineers/administrators to cut their teeth on a Linux system.
Any examples and/or documentation of YCP, SCR, Liby2, or Libycp is greatly appreciated. . A code versus result comparison is much more informative IMHO.
I've always been a bit puzzled about working with YaST. As far as I understand it: YaST is based on Qt; YaST is not GPL; Qt needs a commercial license if you're not writing GPL software; I've never looked at the way YaST is put together, but I assume the modules are either written with Qt, or linked to the YaST core which links to Qt. That means you need a commercial Qt licence to work on YaST. SuSE obviously have such, but I don't. Even if I wanted to write a module for YaST I couldn't because I'd have to break the Qt licence to do it. Or have I missed something important? :o} -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003