Re: [devel] Network Konfiguration with an KDE-Program

Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2004 11:30 schrieb Juanjo Alvarez:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:52:38PM +0100, Sascha Morr wrote:

> > => http://knetworkconf.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Will it be a goot joice for us?
>
> Yes and no. Yes because it seems to mostly do the job of configuring
> network interfaces. No because it depends on Gnome System Tools-Network,
> a convoluted and huge perl file that tries to do everything for every
> distribution.

Yes, it is bad that everything is hardcoded into it.

> I think is preferable to have a smaller network tool but more dedicated
> to Debian (like Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse and others have)

All those approaches don't bing configurability of Free Software in general a 
single step further. They are only of limited use (distribution company 
specific).

> where we can
> quickly make any changes we want than a huge program that depends on some
> external tools.

I think that depends. Being able to quickly make changes and not hardcoding 
large programs is good. GST backends hardcode everything in perl. A new 
functionality needs a new large  "all distro" backand module and new frontend 
modules in every frontend.

Externalizing a light distribution independent and collaboratively maintained 
common config access functionality however benefits Free Software in general.

So it is not that a bad idea, but CFG is a much better approach to this I 
think. There the backends and middlelayer is written without any distribution 
or config specific hardcoding. These specifics are provided with external 
meta-config files easy to adopt.

http://linuxwiki.de/Config4Gnu/EnglishFAQ

cheers
Christian