From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 16 12:23:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121A216A46D for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF85113C44C for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so958599wxd for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:sender; b=YGJUF/wzGSsD4oBoUnT4lsMdb3GzxgqnRtU8eYQcbpJkB3VM1BLtv9w+rOjHtOnWylXlyM5AEyPNPYSrxTfCrkM/hOUjtOCQHLj2al4/NKaH0lUCVBxn8bD4ZK4IvVOnOnwqp1p9xTNVjdVebpCvibhfzdiGty0DgBUnvyW5oSY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:sender; b=SppprmqTQPkmrynVngAnq104gWz+UYwIVQ2nkIwITUv2BScCLgN0XmbY2N/4z2lkKLEUTvTXQIZsQ1VG3eSfbI42114FshVtxKLxdDsL7NL+vv2w0kKrJ7ddGQyXqjru2SXC1RahksFAoR+ka9r6Lu/54VMGlysZtYf3jhzMWp8= Received: by 10.70.29.2 with SMTP id c2mr6355233wxc.1181996619051; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [196.34.241.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 34sm1016805wra.2007.06.16.05.23.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: David Naylor To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:22:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1993640.CETo88zvLt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706161422.56694.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> Sender: David Naylor Subject: FreeBSD and Information handling X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:23:40 -0000 --nextPart1993640.CETo88zvLt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I was wondering if there was any tool available in freebsd for handling=20 information, specifically configuration files, package information and such= =2E =20 I know all information is available via text files however in order to acce= ss=20 the information the program might have to hard code the retreval system (no= t=20 being able to use a shared library). =20 So: 1) What tools are there for accessing information (i.e. libraries)? 2) If so is there any unification of the interface? 3) If no to any of the above, is there a need for such tools and should it = be=20 a unified interface (not just specific subsets)? David --nextPart1993640.CETo88zvLt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGc9YgyqzxLKpyZI8RAmMTAJ9wD0H+pgLOf2I2vCF8cj3U+f3k7gCfe+TA HLAXF/h80g1HwLYsuQ+Kgxo= =NaqY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1993640.CETo88zvLt--