[wpkg-users] web interface

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Erick Engelke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been developing a web interface for wpkg.
> 
> Our site (university of waterloo) has 3,500 PCs on our active directory, 
> so the possibility of using manually edited XML files just wasn't 
> acceptable - because:
>    - the possibility of XML editing errors
>    - the lack of concurrent access by multiple administrators
>    - the need for atomic changes
> But I commend you on the good choice of using XML to allow future 
> developments like this.
> 
> The web interface ties back to PHP/MySQL, and so XML is generated by PHP 
> from the database as needed.  I'll probably end up caching the XML files 
> until new administrator changes force it to be flushed and regenerated.
> 
> Basic web pages now exist to allow user input and generate hosts.xml and 
> profiles.xml.
> 
> The harder part is making the user interface for packages.xml - so I'm 
> working on that now.
> 
> My pages aren't ready for production today, but I figured I should 
> announce that someone is doing this.

Hi,

That's great news.
We tried to write a web interface for WPKG, there was even a small 
"preview", but no one's working on it anymore (it wasn't well designed, 
too).

If you have something to share, or would like to have some help - let us 
know.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org






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