From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 28 8:39: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from lindy.rusher.com (adsl-64-164-192-197.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.164.192.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF97C37B71A for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: from integratus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lindy.rusher.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2SGg8Z04031; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Message-ID: <3AC21460.B5E83111@integratus.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:42:08 -0800 From: Jack Rusher Organization: http://www.integratus.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Grant Cc: "freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: configuration files, XML? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan Grant wrote: > > Barring the usual problems of keeping source and output in sync, this > gives you a (standard) semi-declarative way of describing the > relationship between XML and .conf file. That's certainly a way to do it, and it's an interesting compromise. My primary objection is that I don't really like the idea of moving all of our configuration data to a system that expresses one of my least favorite properties of NIS; the configure/make cycle. If we can do it, I would sure like to make a more complete change. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message