On Thursday 08 June 2006 19:02, "Pedro Bezunartea López" <pedro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been working with Linux for a few years now and one of the things I > like most about it is the possibility of configuring everything by > modifying readable text files. This is good but if you need to configure > several services you may ask yoursel: why are all the configuration files > for all the services so different? couldn't we come out with a standard > file format that all services, devices, etc would use? What do you think? > Here some ideas to begin with: > 1. It'd have to be based in XML-dtd. Two important reasons, first it's a > widely used standard, and second it's readable enough... and I can think of > another one: it can describe very complex models. > 2. There are already some services that use this kind of configuration > files: tomcat... there's a place to start. > > Any suggestions are welcomed, > First, this thread is off-topic for this list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PostIsOffTopic I'm going to guess you don't have a whole lot of experience developing configuration systems in software applications. When developing an application, a lot of consideration must go into the configuration system to be used. The developer will generally make a selection based upon their needs, knowledge and available tools. Sometimes, an XML solution might be the wise choice, but there are also cases where nothing more than a flat-file with "name=value" pairs is necessary, cases where a more powerful database is needed, and cases where some other structured format or scripting language might be needed. The number of factors that must be considered is astronomical. Making a choice for the wrong reasons can have catastrophic consequences. There is no one right way, and there won't be in the foreseeable future. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nman64 Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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