On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:28 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > I have seen variants on the same 200 lines of code for 10 years, even > windows had an API for ".ini" files from windows 3.11, yet Unix/Linux > still has no common configuration standard.... Now we have some people > pushing for XML and other horrors - if the O/S had tackled the problem > head on then the differences between distributions would be less and the > portability of configuration would be greater. Unix people seem to agree > small files, plain text - yet they have no common API ?? Doesn't this > just contribute to the mess ! No, as what could seem best suited for one couldn't be flexible/scalable for another. I think that trying to find a single configuration scheme (one-size-fits-all) is a bad idea. Just imagine storing thousands Snort rules on a Windows-like registry. The KEY=value methapor is not well suited for every kind of application.
