Fellow hackers, I have recently been employed to work on a network configuration tool for a client initially on RedHat and then on Gentoo GNU/Linux. This required separating the logic into front and back ends in a manor similar to the approach for gnome-system-tools. I am hoping to get support of my client to port my gentoo backend code over to this project, if not and time allows I'll do it anyway :). The intention was eventually to release my own code under the (L)GPL but it isn't quite mature enough yet, and this project makes it pretty much obsolete. Having looked at the current code, the HACKING file mentions python backends are allowed but I haven't seen any examples of how this would be achieved as part of an existing perl backend (network stuff), although rewriting in perl isn't out of the question (it probably needs it anyway). My own system was based on the RedHat config tools, without actually sharing any code with them, but used their idea of plugins for network devices. My client requires this functionality but I don't see an easy way of doing this with gnome-network. I'm sure there's more questions I wanted to ask but this is probably enough to gauge if I can get involved. I would like to be able to help on the gentoo port. Cheers. -andy -- Andy Kilner Software Solutions | http://www.andykilner.co.uk/ :: Customised software development, support, and training.
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