[freeside] feature request

G.hariharan hari at sapta.com
Mon May 8 21:24:21 PDT 2000


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At 08:39 PM 05/08/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:11:54AM -0500, David Morton wrote:
> > For me, the GTK stuff is too much work...  I love the look, but every
> > time I've looked at it, it took *way* too much code to do things. :P
> >
> > Well, maybe I'll be able to get to the GUI stuff pretty soon.
>
> > One thing I've been wondering about;  I'd like to run the giu on any
> > platform, even M$, but I'm not sure about all the FS libraries running
> > on Win32. (and all the DBI calls...)
>
>FWIW, DBI/DBD runs on Win32, as do most modules.  The Freeside libraries
>would probably need a little work.
>
> > Would it be worthwhile to create
> > a daemon and a set of
> > RPC calls for the gui's to communicate with?  (Tee hee, now there's a
> > lot of work)
>
>Nope, it isn't worthwhile to create such a beast when you could use
>RPC::pServer and RPC::pClient from CPAN.  An excellent idea, given that
>with those tools it's now only a little bit of work.
>
> >  That way, the creation of accounts, shell machines,
> > passwords, and SQL stuff can still be controlled from one location (as
> > it is now)
> >
> > >
> > > I played with Gtk for a while and would recommend it; a bit newer than Tk
> > > but also nicer looking and with more active development.
> > >
> > > I'm very interested in seeing an X interface of any sort.
> > >
> > > --
> > > meow
> > > _ivan
>
>--
>meow
>_ivan




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