On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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??? > and don't forget to mention some stupid binary configuration system, like gconf, that incapable of removing erroneous entries created by a typo.
