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

["Marco Baurdoux" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ted,
Perl is already soooooooooooo slow when it comes to web applications,
so at least the usage of a database will speed it up a little. Could you
image the amount of CPU time
it would take to parse such a file everytime.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Behling" <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 6:19 AM
Subject: [cobalt-developers] Idea: Changing GUI's Data Sources


> 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?
>
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