[issue51] More friendly gui ?

[Pascal Bleser]

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Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 5:19 pm, Michael Mansour wrote:
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>>> jon <linux.learner at gmail.com> added the comment:
>>>>
>>>> web based is an option. but that might require a daemon (not sure on
>>>> that). it would certainly require smart to listen on a particular
>>>> port from local host
>>>> (mush the same way X listens to port 6000).
>>> One of the main things I like about yum, is an add-on called pakiti (used
>>> to be called yumit). Nightly checks are run in the normal way, but are
>>> logged to a MySQL database which can be viewed via a webpage, so you can
>>> see which systems (almost any linux based systems) which need updating from
>>> a webpage.
>>>
>> There are many yum guis.  FC5 comes with yumex, which is pretty good.
> 
> Yes I know, but I'm not coming from the angle of a desktop user.
> 
> None of the yum gui's give you a web page view of your entire environment,
> pakiti is the only one that does. When you're running a large number of
> servers (anywhere from 5 - 1000's), local gui's are of no help and a wholistic
> view of the environment one of the only things that matters.

Well technically, a web UI is very feasible.
Would just need to use an embeddable webserver in pure Python.
Twisted would do.
Actually a lot more could be done, like a Jabber bot (also using Twisted).

But the main issue with those UIs is threading/parallelization. I don't think smart has been
designed to handle several operations at the same time, possible by different people, on the same
RPM/dpkg/... database, etc...

cheers
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