Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:20:44 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@poboxes.com> Cc: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: configuration files, XML? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104041115130.14755-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <u245s6mh.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
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On 4 Apr 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > the idea is to keep data where they are in the format they are and to > have some sort of configurable api which interpret them through the > appropriate gui. I think it's better to keep the content separate and to generate old-format configs on demand. We do this with master.passwd and vipw already, essentially, but it needs something more general while we're waiting for the world to catch on to what a good idea XML* config files are :-/ Although this brings up another issue: stuff like chfn, passwd might be written to modify the old-format file - the synchronisation between old- and new- format config files needs to be two-way unless the system utilities are taught about XML config files too. > maybe I am totally wrong about the xml possibilities ? It's just a syntax. If you can write it down, you can write it down in XML. It might not look very pretty, but it can be done. jan * For "XML" read "any commonly applicable format" -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk perl -e 's?ck?t??print:perl==pants if $_="Just Another Perl Hacker\n"' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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