Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:46:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rjesup@wgate.com Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group), jar@integratus.com (Jack Rusher), areilly@bigpond.net.au (Andrew Reilly), jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), jonathan@graehl.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configuration files, XML? Message-ID: <200103271847.LAA12668@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <ybuae68mgcc.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> from "Randell Jesup" at Mar 26, 2001 03:21:23 PM
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I'm going to be shot, but... > >I think it has less to do with offending people than having an O/S that > >is compatible with the other UNIX O/S's out there. For example, > >syslog.conf, services, protocols, inetd.conf, to name a few can be > >maintained and copied to FreeBSD, Linux (excepting inetd.conf), > > This is a very good point. And the rc files. BSD is gratuitously different. > Certainly. There are some possible tricks for dealing with > the compatibility issues, especially if we can have some sort of > programmatic conversion (especially if it can work both ways). > This is a little like how we handle /etc/passwd, but with two-way > automatic conversions. We could call the conversion utilities "niload" and "nidump"... (I hated them on NeXTStep; I think that caching configuration data is a harmful practice). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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