On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:02 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: > * create an editor for that format (which handles data - settings, > values, parents and children, rather than presentation related info > like lines and paragraph) At its heart, Augeas is a tool to make writing such editors easy, easier than starting from scratch for every format. Of course, there's also benefit for users if they can edit many config files with the same tool instead of having a separate tool for each config file. > Using 'widely varying formats' is not 'valuable'. I was a little oblique .. I meant 'that config data is stored in text files is valuable', mostly to contrast that with some other approaches that have been proposed in the past. > It's an unfortunate accident that wastes everyone's time with various > horrible bandaid solutions I think we're all in agreement that the situation is far from the best imaginable. That's why I chose "Augeas"[1] as the name for this ;) David [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augeas "In Greek mythology, Augeas ... was King of Elis ... He is best known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned" _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
