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Re: [cobalt-developers] Idea: Changing GUI's Data Sources



At 12:19 AM 9/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
We are all acutely aware of the problems the GUI causes when we manually edit configuration files -- httpd.conf, aliases, virtusertable, and the like. It seems to me not very difficult to rewrite the GUI to use the configuration files as base input when editing data, rather than the PostgreSQL database. All the config files are parseable, so deciphering them into HTML forms and later recording the changes as the admin originally laid them out seems feasible.

Comments/thoughts?

It is feasible, raq2 did it just like that. There was no database. But I suspect, Cobalt evolved into the database method, as it provided an easier user interface.




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