[Apachetoolbox-devel] Re: Perlifying AT - Continues

[Bryan <io...@ap...>]

Very impressive!  I can't thank you enough for the time and effort you're
putting into this!  Have a blast with the house!  I've added you into the
apachetoolbox project on sourceforge, if there's something something I
missed on SF let me know.

-Bryan

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jay Lawrence wrote:

>
> Dear Bryan,
>
> How are things? Just a quick note to let you know I have made some
> excellent progress with my concept for Apachetoolbox. I think you're
> going to be suprised.
>
> I have to say that what I am writing is a bit of a departure from what
> you have so far. Although I may have taken some more elaborate
> approaches to programming this I think you guys will find that it
> works well and logically.
>
> I don't want to send you demo code *just* yet because I want to pass
> it through one refactoration phase. At least then I will have better
> method naming and probably break it apart into more logical chuncks
> than it currently stands.
>
> In a nutshell however, this is what I've been doing:
>
>  a - Base class Apachetoolbox drives:
>        - build sequence
>        - save/load
>        - global preferences
>        - inherits its choice of ONE UI module below
>
>  b - Each software package has its own package which inherits
>      Apachetoolbox::Application. This package does:
>        - registers itsself with Apachetoolbox class
>        - fetch/check/unpack
>        - configure, make, and install
>        - configuration options list
>
>  c - Each software package can have a list of modules (Apache
>      being the most obvious case). Each module inherits
>      Apachetoolbox::<application>::mod. This package
>       - registers itsself with its application
>       - configuration options related to this module for the
>         main app
>
>  d - There are any number of UI modules. The one that I am going
>      to focus on is a Curses one. It is not a big stretch to build
>      a CGI, Tk or GTk UI module at all.
>       - provides all menus and user prompts
>
> What works now:
>  a - building of standard modules and libraries
>      - the funky processes like for mod_perl and PHP still needs to be
>        addressed - but all in good time
>      - I have not tackled 3rd party apache modules just yet either
>
>      - these will come next after I've finished refactoring and can
>        send you demo code
>
>  b - Main menu and submenu code in Curses module
>      - subject of my code refactoring now
>
>  c - Src download and verification
>      - one idea might be to build a list of sites for a program
>
> Things for consideration
>  1 - conversion of current configuration to new save file format
>  2 - I'm only building on RedHat 7.1 for now ... but I need to build
>      on Solaris as well. There are necessary hints for different
>      architectures, I am sure. (MySQL is one of them)
>  3 - scads of other stuff I am sure.
>
> Unfortunately, I have to focus on some other projects around here.
> Namely the renovation of my house! So I cannot put as much time into
> this as I'd like. But, I want to take this to deliverable status ASAP
> because I need it for my work too.
>
> Anyway, what I can do is upload the code to sourceforge and then you
> guys can try it on for size.
>
> Cheers,
> Jay
>