On 11/19/05, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is *nothing* wrong with XML itself, if fact there are lots of very > good built-in properties in XML, the only thing a service description in > XML would need is strong style guidelines. > > And BTW without strong style guidelines flatfiles are just as bad, so > the only thing you people are saying is "I've seen good flat-file style, > but no good xml-file style". And considering you've all read perhaps 100 > Guidelines is the key. As far as I can tell there has been no effort in the past to try to standardize config file syntax. Of course any effort to force a standard on application developers is doomed, but if two configuration file standards were developed (like an RFC document): one a simple key-value, one record per line text file format; the other a XML schema for more complex configuration files then I believe developers will be tempted to adopt whichever standard suits their need. A standard parsing library in the major application languages will provide further incentive. This should also help in the common scenario where a separate developer is responsible the admin GUI for an application (probably in another application language). If a standard configuration file is used, the GUI admin tool developer does not have to worry about changing syntax and bugs in the parser. Is developing these standards worth while? Is it in the remit of the Fedora project? Joe. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
