On 02/10/2011 06:52 AM, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
On štvrtok 10 Február 2011 10:13:10 Klaus Kaempf wrote:
* Gabriele Mohr <gs@suse.de> [Feb 09. 2011 10:22]:
Am 28.01.2011 16:50, schrieb Arvin Schnell:
Hi,
in a recent telco the question about the direction of the YaST architecture was raised.
I miss an important fact when reading the discussion here. For me it's not clearly pointed out how WebYaST and YaST will work together nicely in future.
Thanks for bringing this up.
I think they should share as much code as possible, e.g. an interface which provides the logic for system access (something like Klaus has proposed?). I think it's a very important goal to bring WebYaST and YaST together and this aspect should be more respected in the discussion.
This reveals a key problem in the current discussion - treating YaST and WebYaST as separate projects.
I believe this is wrong.
What's needed is a common infrastructure/backend resp. API to do management tasks on a Linux system.
This forms the low-level development API for the various user interfaces.
What we currently know/discuss as 'YaST' would be the (rich) Qt user interface. What we currently know/discuss as 'WebYaST' would be the (limited) Web user interface. Additionally, a CLI interface for scripting is needed.
All those user interfaces are using the common backend, exposing different details and functionality.
I'm loosing the sense of small steps, we are discussing grand unification plans again.
Without a clear picture of the architecture that everyone can work from you end up with something that is cobbled together and the pieces never fit properly. The implementation steps should be on the smallish side, no question. But there ought to be a big picture showing the "macro architecture" if you will, maybe something like the attached diagram. The everyone can work on their own little piece of the world but with the big picture in mind. That way things will fit together. Having something like this ought to make it easier to make decisions about the moving parts. Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Novell-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rschweikert@novell.com rschweikert@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One
