RE: Ganymede dev2b released

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

| Thanks for the quick response.  Overall I found ganymede an excellent
| tool.  I was going to build something similar using Oracle and Java, but
| this has saved me a huge amount of time.  I like the customization
| ganymede affords.  I am looking forward to the first production release.

Thanks for your bug report!  We unfortunately have not been getting a great
deal of feedback on Ganymede so far, outside of the lab here.  Every little
bit helps.

I'm very very interested in hearing how the customization goes for you..
I'm trying to make the plug-in classes as powerful and as customizable as
I can, but I am quite sure that there are things that are not well documented
at this point, and extension hooks that need to be added.  Have you done
any plug-in coding, or have you just been working with the schema editor
at this point?

How big are your user_info and hosts_info files in GASH?  How have you
found the performance of the Ganymede server and/or client?  What sort
of machines are you running things on?

| I am looking forward to the first production release.

I think we're really getting close to it, at least at the level of GASH.
Here at the lab we're trying to evolve the system/network schema to
support arbitrary subnetwork allocations, the ability to provide a subnet
of 8 or 16 addresses for our ISDN home users, and the ability to support
an indeterminate amount of DNS domains for use with an ISP-type environment.

All of which is to say that what defines a production release varies according
to the needs of the adopter.. the passwd/group support would probably be quite
usable right now, assuming that the adopter wrote up their own nisbuilder
script.

| Thanks again,

And thank you.

| ck

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Jonathan Abbey				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
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