system tools status

[Alexandre Strube]

As usually, the reply-to made me send this to the wrong person.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> I was looking at porting some of the fedora system-config-* packages to 
> dapper, figured I will ask here first if there are any projects like 
> that. From what I can see the gnome-system-tools are written in C and 
> Perl (argh!), which must be a bit difficult to maintain, whereas the 
> Fedora stuff is in python.

Gnome-system-tools' author is currently rewriting it in a form of a
library called liboobs, but I don't know how much of it is actually
going to be rewritten.

The frontends are in c/c++ and the backends in perl today. This makes
things like bug # 14774 quite hard to fix - you have first to get to
understand all the relationship between the backend, the xml which goes
in the midlle and the frontends.

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Alexandre Strube
surak at ubuntu.com