SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:14:48 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	Scoug <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Config Tool, Maint, Info. For your information

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

Ray Davison schrieb:

> Klaus:
>
> What is the relationship between ConfigTool and ConfigMaint? Your name
> is associated with both and they seem to do much the same thing.
>

You forgot Configinfo ;-)

The whole story is, there was once the great Tool Configinfo by Rick
Meigs.
As Rick didn't update it for more than 3 Years (and Rick was
unaccessible
at all) I decided to make updates to the configtool database und publish
them. I did this several times. In the meanwhile I got more and more
error
reports with configtool. As I hadn't the sources I couldn't do anything,
except to decide to build a new Config Tool. Kai Evers offered his help
and
we developed both together ConfigMaint. Soon after Version 1.0 was
released
Kai told me that he would be very busy for the next time, and all his
programs have to stay at the level the are... After some months living
with
this situation Goran Ivankovics (with whom I made some other tools)
asked
me 'Why not build another Config Tool ?'. So Configtool was born.

The main differences between Configtool and Configmaint are:

Configtool will be always be more up-to-date (mainly a reason of the
limited time Kai Evers has).
Configtool is more advanced and has much more options than Configmaint
(but
also needs more attention by the users ;-). Unfortunately Kai didn't
manage
until yet to switch the databse from plain ascii to the os2 ini format
configtool uses (otherwise both could use the same database). The switch
to
the ini format was primarily necessary to increase the speed.
Configtool does a lot more checks than Configmaint does.
Configmaint is easier to use.
Configmaint has a Warp4 Design. Kai once said that he would pass the
informations how to do this with Rexx/Dr.Dialog to Goran (both Tools are
build using Rexx/Dr.Dialog), but it didn't happen until yet.

So it's your decision which one to use ;-)

Bye

Klaus

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 10 | March | 2002 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.