Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:22:18 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wes@softweyr.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <20030213122218.3d72c6ba.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030213041709.XOQ23484.out001.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302120632.36583.wes@softweyr.com> <200302121411.h1CEBRSe025071@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200302121521.33506.wes@softweyr.com> <200302121615.h1CGFdGG025691@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <p05200f10ba70be419852@[128.113.24.47]> <20030213041709.XOQ23484.out001.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:17:08 -0500
Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> wrote:
> never work. The current file layouts are too entrenched. What would work;
> however, is XML as an intermediate data layout. The XML would sit between some
> program the user can use to make choices and the underlying text file. Take
> rc.conf for example. You could put all that data in XML format and some gui
> would let the user choose whatever he/she wanted and that would then be piped
> through an XSLT script that renders it in the current key=value layout. The data
> would be kept in defaults/rc.conf.xml and defaults/rc.conf would just become
> another generated file.
How do you want to solve the problem of:
- T1: a human edited /etc/rc.conf without updating the .xml
- T2: someone else (or the same human) uses the GUI to change something
--> the hand edited change in rc.conf is lost
If you have a parser for rc.conf -> .xml (note: I also have some special
r.conf's with "if, else, ...") then you can directly use this parser in
the GUI instead of translating it into xml.
OT-Question: should we "export" existing parsers into share/ so
interested people just have to look into share/parsers/<type> instead of
searching it in /usr/src?
Bye,
Alexander.
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