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Re: [Ceps-discuss] pradmin
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From: Damian I. <da...@ci...> - 2002-10-29 03:17:40
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Yeah that makes sense. How is your Perl skills? Fancy taking a stab at it if I could get the sddb modules done? Damian On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 11:01, Adam Crews wrote: > A perl-sddb module would be ideal. One that actually does the C calls > not just shell escapes like Ben's printNDS.pm >=20 > If there was a decent module, then I think a re-write in Perl would be > good for pradmin, and every other Perl script in ceps. It certainly > would make a web based pradmin nicer. >=20 > I can update the C, I just don't like to. I can read the code enough to > flip the defaults and such, and if I try hard, I can even add a new item > I guess, but that is a pain. >=20 > I wouldn't want to see anything too complex on the config language, but > now that I think about it more, I don't think this is as easy as I > initially thought. >=20 > I'm not opposed to python, but one of the issues that we are seeing with > mailman (all written in python) is that it is very slow on I/O. It is > very inefficient when doing file writes. This plus the fact that there > is already a lot of Perl, leans me toward using Perl instead of python. >=20 > -Adam >=20 > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:23, Damian Ivereigh wrote: > > Hi Adam, > >=20 > > Well it is good idea - though I guess I always consider that a 'C' is a > > configuration file for a compiler! > >=20 > > The biggest hassle would be coming up with the config language format. > > To make life as easy as possible that should be some sort of XML format= . > > There will still need to be a bunch of 'C' routines that will be needed > > to do the more complex things - but these could be linked to by name. > > Then the simpler stuff can just be done through the XML. However then > > people would have to learn this format. > >=20 > > It would be fair amount of work, but then again it is time that pradmin > > got a rewrite. > >=20 > > What about rewriting it in Perl or Python? Would that make it more > > accessible to you? Maybe, dude, it's time you learned 'C'! :-) > >=20 > > Damian > >=20 > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:01, Adam Crews wrote: > > > Damian, > > >=20 > > > I was thinking a bit about pradmin, and how to make it a little more > > > flexible. > > > How hard do you think it would be to extract the fields, and default > > > values and such for pradmin into a config file? Then just have a > > > pradmin tool that reads this config file for all the various options > > > that are available. This would allow anyone to easily add/remove/cha= nge > > > defaults for fields in pradmin without needing to re-compile. > > >=20 > > > -Adam > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ceps-discuss mailing list > > > Cep...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceps-discuss > > --=20 > > Damian Ivereigh > > CEPS Team Lead > > Desk: +61 2 8446 6344 > > Mob: +61 418 217 582 > >=20 > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > >=20 > > PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x24E7A6= 8F >=20 >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Ceps-discuss mailing list > Cep...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceps-discuss --=20 Damian Ivereigh CEPS Team Lead Desk: +61 2 8446 6344 Mob: +61 418 217 582 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html=20 PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x24E7A68F |