From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 25 15:18:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from molly.straylight.com (molly.straylight.com [209.68.199.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057F037B71A for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonathan@graehl.org) Received: from dickie (case.straylight.com [209.68.199.244]) by molly.straylight.com (8.11.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id f2PNIZE15264 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:18:35 -0800 From: "Jonathan Graehl" To: "freebsd-Arch" Subject: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:18:00 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apparently ( http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/24.primer.shtml ) Mac OS X ships with the traditional set of Unix services (although they intentionally don't have a shell or probably a lot of the other standard programs we're used to). They use XML configuration files to present a uniform graphical configuration for their daemons. Does anyone have a Mac with which to check it out? Is source available to their entire userspace system, or just the OS itself? If Mac OS X has done configuration files right, perhaps we could copy their approach. If not, we can learn from their mistakes. -- Jonathan Graehl http://jonathan.graehl.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message