Re: LTSP GUI Management selected in GSOC openSUSE project

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 12:09 -0700,
ltsp-developer-request-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Jan Weber would be working on the project, here is the idea page:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Easy-LTSP
> 
> "To be more portable [...] in a xml file" sounds scary.
> 
> Portability is non-issue in the first place (the tool seems
> to be supposed to be self compatible anyways, and plaintext 
> configuration is portable enough already), and XML is not
> really human editable.
> 
> Introducing shadow configs might be okay for openSUSE with users
> already used to YaST wiping "real" configs over with generated
> but generally it's a bad idea (see also e.g. fillup).
> 
> > Wishing all the luck to Jan
> 
> I'm afraid he'll need a lot, it's quite an enterprise to
> accomplish.  So +1 :) as the agenda itself is pretty good.

xml can be simple and is easy to use and easy to edit. Qt has lots of
xml built in.
Plain-files are so simple until entropy prevails and you have Amess.

So my vote would be YES:xml NO:plain-files.

James


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