System configuration

[Marcus Brubaker]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 06:45, James Knott wrote:
> Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 22:19, William Park wrote:
> > 
> >>On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:45:33PM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >>
> >>>>I though linuxconf was the bees knees! Where d'it go ?
> >>>
> >>>The plans were vastly more ambitious than the outcome, and the project
> >>>crumbled under the complexity.
> >>>
> >>>The complexity of building extension modules was such that only the most
> >>>devoted of developers were prepared to put the effort into building
> >>>them.
> >>>
> >>>Interest in Linuxconf collapsed shortly thereafter, alongside the
> >>>failure of similar ambitions in Caldera's COAS system.
> >>>
> >>>The tools that are of ongoing relevance are:
> >>>
> >>> a) Webmin, which has an easier system for integrating in modules
> >>>    written in Perl, instead of in C++, and
> >>
> >>I could write Linuxconf in shell (and its friends), if they paid me.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > The sheer amount of arbitrary text processing required makes perl an
> > easier choice for those kinds of modules, hence the success of Webmin
> > and, relative, failure of Linuxconf.  Of course, by an informal
> > extension to the Church-Turing Thesis we can claim that all languages
> > are equally powerful, so yeah, you could do it shell.  But I don't know
> > if there's enough money out there to make it worth my while to write
> > something like that in shell.  Ick....
> > 
> 
> Well, there's always Visual Basic.  ;-)
> 

Touche :)

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