Re: sysinst split project - The Configuration File
David Holland <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:50:39PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > 3. Configuration should be done in a concise and legible format,
> > such as key/value pairs, nested key/value pairs, columnar tables, or
> > whatever. Since XML is content-free^W^W just syntax, any such sane
> > format can easily be represented as XML. (As long as the data remains
> > strictly hierarchical and isn't, say, graph-structured. But that's not
> > likely to be a problem here.)
>
> Right. I tend to favor property lists for this ... but the
> prevalent format for those in modern times are the XML flavor.
Config files meant for manual editing should use some other syntax.
Why is it again that proplib can't handle a simple key=value and
key={ key=value... } syntax?
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David A. Holland
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