Re: config tools subproject

Tiemo Kieft <[email protected]> said:

> Hi everybody,
> As dams mentioned I haven't been very active lately, and I apologize for
> the way I handled the situation. But I'm back :D
> 
> Ok, the config-tools project. Damns already posted this link, but just
> to make sure everybody gets it:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/research/config_tools.xml
> 
> If you think I missed some tools, then please say so. My goal is to
> decide on which tools to make in two weeks. After that we'll have to
> come up with tool specific requirements.

So the question is : which config tools are the most needed, and which one are
the most eady to do. We'll try to cross the 2 lists then

> 
> I've attached an ebuild for dams' libconf, which is a very handy library
> for reading and manipulating config files. Dams is looking for people
> the test it, comment on it and eventually commit it to CVS. Libconf
> could be very useful to this subproject, that's why I attached it to
> this posting.

actually it's already commited by seemant in dev-utils.
The actual version is working however, I recommend you to wait for the next one
which will be out shortly. I'll write an howto use it for gentoo in particular


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dams