Re: [CentOS] Kind of OT: internal imap server

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 01:42, Andy Green wrote:

> > been a useful way to automate repetitive tasks - even better
> > when someone else has written them and embedded the execution
> > in the program startup script.
> 
> That must be why so much other software manages their config by 
> converting it into gibberish by build tools, instead of the naive and 
> unprofessional method of parsing a single level of config straight.

Yes, at some point just about every piece of software you
use had a Makefile create it with the options someone chose.
It is the right way to do things. Sendmail just adds another
level so you don't have to rebuild from source to get custom
programming capability in case you want to do something that
no one else has done before.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


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