Re: [Eis-devel] specs application manager

[Bas L. <ba...@ba...>]

Hi Luuk,

nice job! I read the specs and consider them a good start. There is one 
thing that I'm not sure about: user and database management. I would 
like EIS to be able run without an SQL database. This way it will be 
easier to setup for services or applications that do not need to store 
any data. Obviously the servermanager application will need at least one 
(administrator) user. Which leaves the question where to store these 
users. And we will also need some temporary datastore for sessions. The 
design of these features will heavily influence the initial setup procedure.

If we can come up with a design in which we have users and sessions for 
the manager app without and SQL database we don't need a mandatory 
initial setup but can offer it as an optional feature for novice users. 
Expert users might prefer to define environments in the server manager 
themselves.

Would you, and the others as well, think with me about the bootstrap of 
having users before having a database? If we can think of, and agree 
upon a solution on how to do this, I think we have described enough to 
start on a rough first version of the manager app. I will design a 
graphical layout for this somewhere soon so we have a structure to work 
with.

cya,

Bas

Luuk van den Broek wrote:
> He people,
>
> I've committed the beginning of specs for the application server
> manager. You can find them in the same place as the 1.6 specs
> (developer/docs/specs). Let me know what you think.
>
> Luuk
>