On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:59:02 +0530 Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > You are very correct, master documents should always be plain text. The > generated documents can be binary however. Also, there should be a fallback > system where the plain text documents are used rather than binary documents > so that the faults in generator do not affect the bootability of the system. What's the point. To me that's just adding an extra redundant layer that could have bugs. I see no point using binaries for configuration whatosever. RAM is crazy fast and some SSDs are now as fast as a PIIIs ram. How many nanoseconds does it take to parse config files??? Heck it would be fast on our spectrum ZX. The other argument is cross program similar formatting. To me that just adds difficulty and a usage barrier to possibly very different programs. Qmail, dovecot and sudoers are all very different, it causes no problem. Binaries and xml in odd multiple locations expecting users to use a conf tool with rediculously long and custom non self explanatory terminal lines does!!!!! I installed mint for a friend. It came with gconf. I had to google and install dconf to configure lockscreen, WTF!. Configuring gnome as an admin takes ages because it's custom. A textfile with examples would take seconds!! I'm sure these things wouldn't have happened years ago!!
