On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:46 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Simo Sorce wrote: > > The only files that are well structured enough to not be an impediment > > are XML files > > Why? What's wrong with plain INI-style files like the ones used by KConfig? > They are also structured. The problem is that there isn't a standard INI-style format, and therefore no standard INI-parser that works for all of them. When you get down to the nitty gritty, all those INI-style formats have subtle differences (Does 'Rem' start a comment ? Are spaces legal between key, '=' and value ? Are indented lines continuations of the previous line like in yum or is the indentation just ignored as in samba.conf ? Can entries just be 'key' like in mysql.conf or do you have to have 'key =' at a minimum etc.) For a human, those differences are somewhat annoying, for a program that reads and writes INI-style files, it's a serious issue. (That's part of what Augeas is addressin) David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
