From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 27 10:47:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DE737B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA35840; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:47:19 -0700 Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpd5Fvtia; Tue Mar 27 11:47:14 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA12668; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:47:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103271847.LAA12668@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: configuration files, XML? To: rjesup@wgate.com Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:46:45 +0000 (GMT) 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 In-Reply-To: from "Randell Jesup" at Mar 26, 2001 03:21:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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