Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] Gnome System Tools + PGI + Progenyhackers + more developers from Debian = working Debian Desktop

[Richard Bos <allabos freeler nl>]

Op woensdag 6 november 2002 18:45, schreef Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo:
> About the frontends, what you say could also be done. But Debian
>   should only plug tools for Debian specific things (for example apt).

Bad example ;)  APT is in use on many rpm based systems as well.  
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net

Op woensdag 6 november 2002 18:45, schreef Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo:
>   Only GNOME part of GST is GNOME-specific. Backends are written in
>   Perl, and you can write other front-ends over them (for text or KDE).
>   Of course, GST and back-ends should be splitted in different packages.

The backends communicating with the frontend using xml.  So they (the 
backends) receive there information from the frontends via xml and vice versa 
the frontends are fed with xml formatted output.  The only thing the 
frontends need to is to visualize this data to the user.  This could be using 
gnome, ncurses or the frontend of debconf (is that pgi?).

The backends do all the hard work of finding out which distro (or unix 
dialect) is to be configured, parsing the xml data and formatting the output 
back in xml to have it sent to the frontends.

Aren't the backends already provided in a seperate module.  While GST was 
still XST the backends and the frontends were seperated.  So it would be 
really great if the PGI and GST backends are unified.  And as Jose said 
someone provides a module for Debian, which could be test by a RH, suse, or 
whatever user and with some small modifications the new module would work on 
the other distro as well.

Sounds easy probably difficult to do.

-- 
Richard Bos
Without a home the journey is endless



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