On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 08:24 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Saturday, November 19, 2005 4:35 PM +0200 Gilboa Davara > <gilboada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was talking about /simple text/ parsers, no XML one. > > How simple? Set the bar too low and you cripple some uses of it. XML's > value is in generality. You don't actually have to use all of it. Simple > applications can use very simple styles, and yet still be able to leverage > the advanced features for corner cases like unusual characters and > character sets. There's no requirement that your config file has to be > complex. Package developers will have to support what they define, and > won't want to spend all their time explaining a complex schema, unless > their application is equally complex. Again, I fail to see why we need complex text inside the package manager. Even if you must, you can always shove the translation strings into /usr/share/locale. (Or /etc/scm/locale if you which to load it from within initrd.) It seems the people tend to confuse the application configuration (AKA /etc/samba/smb.conf) and the service configuration (/etc/init.d/smb or /etc/scm/samba.conf). The service manager (scm) configuration should be as simple as it gets. Same goes, in my eyes, with the service manager itself. > > For those who love var=value pairs, one could always use m4 to expand that > into equivalent XML, the way sendmail does to create its legacy cf file > from the much simpler mc file. > Adding yet another step of complexity just to fix a dead service. Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
