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Re: iX's Debian Review

On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:

> Hopefully, the Deity team will solve the dselect problem soon,
> and the new admintool will help our "friendliness" rating.
> (Now that we are talking about that... are there any news about those
> projects, Deity & admintool? current status or ETA?) 

	I asked in debian-devel whether there was anything like what you
are calling 'admintool', and got no response.  So this weekend, I started 
a perl-tk tool that probably does the same thing.  I'd like to know about
the other projects so I don't waste time. 
	I was thinking about something that would give information
to users , admins, and developers.  

This is what works so far: 
* Reads 'available', parses field:value pairs. 
* Display list box with all package names.
* Click on package name displays data in text window.
* Filter panel lists all field names with an entry for each
  Hit return in filter panel and package list is filtered 'and'-ing 
  expression for each field
* On line help (with hyperlink, taken from fvwmconf).

Want to add:
* Toggles on filter panel:
	string/perlre
	and/or
	not 
	case sensitive
* select fields to appear on filter panel (all for now)
* select fields to appear in text window
* Parse status and use data.
* User, admin modes that present different options.
* hyperlink in text window to view other packages

Parsing the file takes a minute, but after that, its quite quick.
Please tell me that admintool is well under way, because I have a
thesis to write.

BTW, I agree  that dselect has some big problems.


G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ     http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre


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