On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 05:36:52PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi Jürgen - and others, Hi Jonas, > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:43:03PM +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:40:17PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>> I am considering writing a desktop application (i.e. not a web app!) >>> [for CipUX] and it would then help tremendously to know which >>> features was most urgently needed to implement. >> >> For me that is a kind of wasted time, because I cannot see any need for >> our project this time in such an application. > > Good point. > > >> What I see is and please correct me if I'm wrong, that there has been >> done a lot of work by Andreas to get gosa in place for usage. Why not >> helping him to get a working solution. > > I actively do my best to avoid PHP. So personally GOsa is of no > interest. Yes, I agree to your choise avoiding PHP. In the case of GOsa I see PHP as the lesser evil. > But that's just me. I certainly encourage those with PHP skills and > interests to help out making GOsa work best possible. > > Or perhaps try update and maintain LWAT a little longer, so that > Skolelinux is less in a hurry to switch such central part as the LDAP > admin tool. I would prefer if Skolelinux could transition more slowly > with LWAT still available as fully working backup tool, over a "hard > switch" which currently seems to be needed. > > >> Or in your special case, why not make cipux alternativly usable like >> gosa for our project, to have a choise while installing, which of them >> one want to use. > > If I understand you (and the work done with GOsa) correctly, this is > indeed what have been going on the last year or two. No, that was not what I ment :) My idea was, if you can do work for having CipUX installed from our DVD as a choise between GOsa and CipUX for giving them both to the users for testing. Hopefully this would synergize ideas and gives a better feeling to all about the things we need or would like to have. > CipUX is officially in Debian Sid and Squeeze. Anyone interested in > trying out CipUX is quite welcome helping us test the quality of these > packages. More info at http://wiki.cipux.org/development Yeah, great work you are doing there, thx. > (hmm - seems the mailinglist web interface is down currently - I guess > you could simply start post to the list if you are interested in > subscribing to it: cipux-devel@cipux.org ). > > > The reason I "waste" time on yet another tool is it is a) really not > starting from scratch but just another frontend to the existing CipUX > framework, b) the packaging of both CipUX framework and CipUX CAT-Web > Web UI should soon be finished, and c) coding a small Perl app is an > excercise I need anyway for another project of mine (sms administration > of sms messages for a theater group - for whom both simple GUI, flexible > access and high reliability is crucial). I know you as a man who is doing all well thought. So enjoy your 'wasting' time :) > Thanks for your input. They are appreciated, even though I disagree > with them. :-) > > Regards, > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private Regards, Jürgen Leibner -- juergen@leibner.eu GnuPG Key ID: 0x9CD43E5A Finger-Print: D0BC A628 A265 2FF9 A9CC 4D69 F59C 59BA 9CD4 3E5A
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