On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:52:30PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > Interpreters do not preclude simple data: they just scale better, > from simple linear declarative data to complex, Turing-cranking > swamp. The only argument against it is runtime overhead, which isn't > a problem in many, if not most, cases. It's NOT the only argument against it. Having Turing-complete configuration files makes it impossible to have other programs parse and understand the configuration. Programs including: - OpenSCAP, or any other security scanner - libvirt (hello, old Xen's python config files) - multiple libguestfs tools like virt-sysprep - Augeas and all the tools that use it Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
