On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 19:52, Rick Thomas wrote: > As a long time sysadmin (30 years) I much prefer the declarative > model for configuration files, for the reasons Carwyn points out. > > Obviously, the declarative specs have to be implemented somehow, > and that's where the procedural model comes in. > > Do we need a module somewhere that takes the declarative > configuration as input and produces the procedural specs as output? > I think that would fit nicely. take a list of what the system 'should be' and run it through a parser to produce a list of commands necessary to get it there. probably wouldn't be a lot of code, truth be told. -sv
