Comanche alpha

[Daniel Lopez Ridruejo <ri...@gtex-pracs.us.es>]

I am sending this to new-httpd and gui-dev, so if any of you is subscribed to
both of them you will get it twice (sorry)

This is to announce Comanche 0.1 alpha
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* What is Comanche?
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Comanche stands for "COnfiguration MANager for apaCHE"
It is a graphical configuration utility for the Apache webserver (see
http://www.apache.org) distributed under GNU license

You can find more information about Comanche at

http://www.esi.us.es/~ridruejo/comanche

and about the Apache GUI and Configuration project at

http://butler.disa.mil/ApacheConfigClient
http://www.esi.us.es/~ridruejo/gui


* Where can I get it?
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http://www.esi.us.es/~ridruejo/comanche/download

NOTE: This release is only intended for the people at gui-dev@apache.org
and new-httpd@apache.org. So PLEASE do not distribute further. Although it is
pretty usable now, I do not want to make it wide public until I consider
it is complete enough

* What do I need to run it?
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Comanche is written in TCL/TK, so it should run out of the box in any
Windows, MAC or UNIX machine with a TCL/TK interpreter installed
It has been tested in Windows NT, Windows 95 and Red Hat Linux 5.0

You need tcl/tk 8.0 to run it. You can get it at ftp://ftp.smli.com/pub/tcl
The latest version I know of is 8.0p2

* What is this release for?
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I would be very grateful if some the developers of Apache had the time to
play a bit with Comanche and give some feedback and ideas.

In short: Is that what you expected? How do you think it can be improved?

You can do it through gui-dev mailing list or directly
to me ridruejo@zipi.us.es

* Acknowledgements
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Sue. For her patience... I love u
Miguel for Beta Testing
The Apache Group. For creating such a wonderful server
The friends at the Apache Gui project (Hi Justin! Hi Mario! :)

Re: Comanche alpha

[Justin Seiferth <se...@erols.com>]

There's a java version on the way.  See
http://butler.disa.mil/ApacheConfig

Justin

Re: Comanche alpha

[Rasmus Lerdorf <ra...@lerdorf.on.ca>]

> Yes and no.  The web still sucks for stuff like that.  Making a useful
> web-based program is far harder than making a useful local program.
> 
> Note that someone is working on a Java one.  Hmm.  Perhaps I should start
> playing with yet-another-thing-that-I-won't-finish to get into Java... 

Looking at the snapshots of Comanche I don't really see anything in the
interface that couldn't be done with a bit of JavaScript and some fancy
HTML.  Wouldn't even need Java to achieve the same result.  

Of course, I should install it and play with it to make further comments
on it.  Just can't see myself installing TCL/TK on this little Windows
palmtop,

-Rasmus

Re: Comanche alpha

[Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> > Comanche is written in TCL/TK, so it should run out of the box in any
> > Windows, MAC or UNIX machine with a TCL/TK interpreter installed
> > It has been tested in Windows NT, Windows 95 and Red Hat Linux 5.0
> 
> Seems a bit odd to me that a GUI for administrating a web server is not
> web-based.

Yes and no.  The web still sucks for stuff like that.  Making a useful
web-based program is far harder than making a useful local program.

Note that someone is working on a Java one.  Hmm.  Perhaps I should start
playing with yet-another-thing-that-I-won't-finish to get into Java... 

Re: Comanche alpha

[Rasmus Lerdorf <ra...@lerdorf.on.ca>]

> Comanche is written in TCL/TK, so it should run out of the box in any
> Windows, MAC or UNIX machine with a TCL/TK interpreter installed
> It has been tested in Windows NT, Windows 95 and Red Hat Linux 5.0

Seems a bit odd to me that a GUI for administrating a web server is not
web-based.

-Rasmus