Hi folks, it's me again :) Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'd like some (easy) way of storing answers to questions. The > questions and answers could be shared between packages, when > suitable. One such question would be whether the local admin > wants to allow creation of the empty directories in /usr/local.
That is the best idea so far. > If we want to be ambitious, we'll create a fancy language for > defining the user interaction. Something similar to dialog, but > something that is not tied to text terminals, so that it can > later be extended to X as well. It's a big project, of course, > and not something that should be undertaken lightly. Back when the perl/sh postinst script discussion started i tried to add a TCL/TK interpreter to the dialog core to provide a common script language coupled with fancy interfaces both for character and graphics based usage. This could as well be the foundation for complete system administration tool like SMIT or SAM - no not ADMINTOOL :) ... But that is really a hard job: Getting the first code together and add some simple dialog widgets was easy but then the problems started... Unfortunately i ran out of free time to further pursue this project and killed it (literally, no code left - that's the only way to stop me from wasting time with it) Dominik =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Visit the FAN SITE of the WORLD LEAGUE OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL: <A HREF="http://www.uni-mainz.de/~kubla/WLAF/Welcome.html>HTTP</A> or <A HREF="file:/afs/zdv.uni-mainz.de/homes/UFO/kubla/public_html/WLAF/Welcome.html">AFS file</A> access.
