On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:52, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > Things like how to best > handle international characters. utf-8 > A list of common pit falls. Trying to create a "one size fits all" configuration language for all applications. Trying to shoehorn a popular data-encoding method (xml) into all niches you can think of. > A a few > config file styles that are considered good, and a few that are > examples of how not to do it. Good: Exim; dhcp; xinetd (as opposed to original inetd although the basic ideas are similar, the directory structure allowing split files is a big improvement over the single .conf file). Bad: almost anything using .ini ;) *please note the ALMOST* if the data set basically only has one or two dimensions, .ini will work fine. It will limit you in the future, maybe. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
