Re: YaST GPL'ed

Le mardi 23 Mars 2004 06:14, Datschge a écrit :
> Hm, to be honest I don't know yet either. I didn't use SuSE since the pre
> YaST2 days anymore. On the promo list Scott Wheeler wrote following:
>
> "Actually I don't know if you've ever looked at the code, but it's written
> in a weird meta-style so that it can be used with different GUIs.  One of
> those just happens to be a Qt frontend."

It's a big advantage here to be able to have different frontends... I've 
watched Simon's work with great interest and IMHO the frontend/backend split 
is the main lack of his tools...
On the usability front I really don't know which one is better... but Simon, 
yours look very promising! ;-)

> Reading a couple of resources about it YaST mostly seems to access one
> unified central configuration file where all available settings are stored
> and then calls suseconf which then handles the work of comparing and
> applying the changes to individual configurations files, creating scriptes
> etc. I suppose we will find out more when the source is publically
> released.

AFAIK the source is already released... and for a long time... It was not GPL 
but the source was available.
After a quick search on Suse's FTP, I've found this :
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/src/yast2*

It seems to be what we are looking for...
If somebody wants to look at it! ;-) I'm planning to do it myself in a near 
future possibly this week-end... for now I'm going back to my exams! ;-)

Regards.
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