On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 06:59, Erik Larsson wrote: > Me and my friend are currently working on a configuration tool the firewall. We > have a very good id'how too structure the program so it will be very easy to > configure the firewall without any knowledge about iptables. > > When discussing the idea and here some questions: > > 1) Is it Python and PyGTK that is the programming language or can we use C/C++? > (Not that we don't think Python is advanced enough) Python if at all possible. > 2) How shall this config tool work with other config tools, especially the > installer Anaconda? Since this tool will be more of a system administrator kind of tool, I don't think that we'd want to integrate such a tool into the installer or firstboot. > 3) Does it have to be a text version (TUI) for those who use the console > installation? redhat-config-securitylevel already has a TUI, and since the full blown firewall tool wouldn't be integrated into the installer, there's no need to worry about console installation. You could still do a TUI if you want to, but the text interfaces are pretty limited in what you can do with the interface. I think that as long as you cleanly separated the backend code, you could do a GUI for starters and then see if the demand is there for a TUI. Cheers, Brent