Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:45:24 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509261345.JAA16953@healer.com>
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
> > > The only system I've seen that has worked with autoedited files... and
> > > this will really make you cringe... is Microsoft Windows. Their config
> +> Actually, the samba config files have the exact same format as the
> +> MS-Windows config files. It is a well-known and simple format.
> Since Samba is designed to interface with Microsoft Windows, that's not
> surprising.
Whatever. I haven't asked Andrew why he chose that format, so I can't
comment on his motives. But why is irrelevent, it is a useful format.
> I really hate the conceptual integrity problems in the INI files.
...
> But because of them discovering after the fact that they needed to sequence
> events, it may or may not be. This violates the principle of least surprise.
You hate MS's implementation? or the concept of NAME=VALUE in general?
-coranth
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