(create a standard format, proactively patch apps to support a standard format, make an editor for that format, and start shipping packages)On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Mike MacCana <mmaccana@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:07 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > I am pleased to announce a new configuration management project: Augeas, > a low-level configuration API and editing tool. > > Augeas' main goal is to make programmatic changes of configuration data > on Linux/Unix systems simple and safe. The main stumbling stone for this > is that configuration data is stored in numerous files in widely varying > formats. This is both next to impossible to change and is valuable in > many situations. > > The amount of effort spent creating and re-creating tools to parse, edit > and transform a variety of unnecessary, unstructured data formats over the > last 30 years, and to continue doing this for the next 10 years, is less > than that required to: >
Then it should have happened.. because we have had several million monkeys doing various things. I have seen multiple attempts at what you outline,
When? The closest thing I've ever seen has been gconf and dconf, which are limited to GNOME apps (albeit quite successful).
Mike
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