On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:28 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Mar 24 février 2009 15:33, Simo Sorce a écrit : > > > Fair enough, but projects like augeas are proof that changing files > > (*from an application*) is not as easy as people make it seem. > > Non-XML text formats are usually not designed for round-trip use (they > only sort-of work in read-only mode when the app never modifies its > configuration itself). > > XML formats can be better but the kind of XML used by gconf is > certainly not an example of something user modifiable. Just because > XML can be used to create human-friendly syntaxes does not mean you > can avoid the design work to make them human-friendly. > > If anything gconf is a prime example of an XML implementation by > people who didn't really understand how XML could work and made it > easy for other people who didn't understand it either to abuse it. You perfectly summarize my thinking, thanks! > > I thik the suggestion was to split config files in multiple small > > files and use ACLs to control access to them. > > IIRC Ted T'so explicitely said in its ext4 FOSDEM presentation this > kind of usage pattern was insanity and ext4 would not really support > it. I was there too, and I totally agree with him, that's why I say that it is not a good idea to think of splitting stuff in many small files. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
