Re: Ximian Setup Tools & KDE

[Kent Nguyen <kent mslinux com>]

Hi,

All I've heard about Ximian Setup Tools are very good things.

This will help speed up our development tremendously.  

Thank you!
--kent


On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:31 pm, Chema Celorio wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Chema Celorio and I am the project manager for the
> Ximian Setup Tools. As it has been discussed in dot.kde.org
> (http://dot.kde.org/989997858/) you might want to take a look
> at our project. The backends are a set of perl scripts that
> speaks XML to the front end. They know nothing about the user
> interface which is invoking them. All the do is spit XML to
> stdout or take XML from stdin. We have two basic operations on the
> backends the --get and the --set operation.
>
> For example, running the network backend on my laptop i get :
>
> [root@sarados chema]# /usr/share/ximian-setup-tools/scripts/network-conf
> --get <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' standalone='yes'?>
> <!DOCTYPE network []>
>
> <network>
>
>   <!-- Configuration starts here -->
>
>   <hostname>sarados</hostname>
>   <hostmatch>1</hostmatch>
>   <workgroup>MYGROUP</workgroup>
>   <description>Samba Server</description>
>   <smbuse>0</smbuse>
>   <smbinstalled>1</smbinstalled>
>   <dialinstalled>1</dialinstalled>
>
>   <nameserver>192.168.0.1</nameserver>
>
>   <searchdomain>homelan.org</searchdomain>
>
>   <order>hosts</order>
>   <order>bind</order>
>
>   <statichost>
>     <ip>127.0.0.1</ip>
>     <alias>sarados</alias>
>     <alias>localhost</alias>
>     <alias>localhost.localdomain</alias>
>   </statichost>
>   <statichost>
>     <ip>192.168.0.1</ip>
>     <alias>suzzy</alias>
>   </statichost>
>   <statichost>
>     <ip>192.168.100.111</ip>
>     <alias>foo</alias>
>   </statichost>
> .....more hosts
>
>   <interface>
>     <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto>
>     <name>WaveLAN wireless LAN</name>
>     <auto>0</auto>
>     <enabled>1</enabled>
>     <dev>wvlan0</dev>
>     <user>0</user>
>     <file>wvlan0</file>
>   </interface>
>
>   <interface>
>     <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
>     <bootproto>none</bootproto>
>     <name>Ethernet LAN card</name>
>     <auto>0</auto>
>     <broadcast>192.168.0.255</broadcast>
>     <enabled>0</enabled>
>     <network>192.168.0.0</network>
>     <dev>eth0</dev>
>     <user>0</user>
>     <address>192.168.0.11</address>
>     <file>eth0</file>
>   </interface>
> .... more interfaces
>   <dialing>
>     <stupid>0</stupid>
>     <password>qqq</password>
>     <login>joe</login>
>     <phone>3232323</phone>
>     <type>dialer</type>
>     <name>ppp0</name>
>   </dialing>
>
>   <!-- End of configuration -->
>
> </network>
> ========================================
>
> I could then modify this XML and pipe it back to set the
> configuration with :
>
> [root@sarados chema]# /usr/share/ximian-setup-tools/scripts/network-conf
> --set < config.xml
>
> So as you can see, the backend is just a perl program.
> We are in fact abstracting the underlying system with the
> XML, the front end has no clue what distribution or UNIX
> system it is operating on. The backends could also be
> used with a command line utility for example.
>
> The current set of tools include :
> time-admin
> shares-admin
> disks-admin
> network-admin
> users-admin
> boot-admin
> memory-admin (swap memory)
> internetsharing-admin (embrionic)
> print-admin (embrionic)
>
> We are starting soon with the :
> Xconfigurator-admin and a
> font-admin tool
>
> It is late over here, i need to get some sleep but i wanted to
> drop a note saying that we would like to share the backends
> between projects. We have been working on the tools for some time
> now so you will not have to start from scratch. There is no
> need to duplicate this functionality between GNOME and KDE.
>
> We can talk more about the technical issues. Feel free to ask
> any questions about XST. You can get the latest tarball from :
>
> ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/setuptools/
>
> The latest announcement can be found here :
> http://www.ximian.com/newsitems/xst_04.php3
>
> We will release 0.5.0 next week, we added support for Debian
> woody, SUSE 7.0, Mandrake 7.1 and RedHat 7.1. (among other
> improvements and bugfixes)
>
> regards,
> Chema
> chema@ximian.com