From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 10:25:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15347 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picasso.wcape.school.za (picasso.wcape.school.za [196.21.102.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15240 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za) Received: from uucp by picasso.wcape.school.za with local-rmail (Exim 1.92 #2) id 0yotHB-0002Dj-00; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:24:05 +0200 Received: from localhost (pvh@localhost) by leftside.wcape.school.za (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA06391; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 07:30:41 +0200 (SAT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 07:30:41 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden To: Atipa cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Atipa wrote: [snip] > The "database" should be ASCII, and lean (like rc.conf, resolv.conf, etc., > etc.). I don't see why you would need to cahnge any of these type files. > > In the case of UUCP/PPP/getty/etc. types of conflicts, I'd say just make > am ASCII resource file, and add to it only problems like this one that may > arise. No need to reinvent the wheel. I'd agree entirely that ASCII is the way to go - a simple structured ASCII format which would be editable with vi if you need to. I'd also agree that minimalism is good - we need something to 'add context' to config file variables, not replace the current config file system. I'll have a look at tclhttpd to see what it offers. Peter -- Peter van Heusden | Computers Networks Reds Greens Justice Peace Beer Africa pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Support the SAMWU 50 litres campaign! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message