On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 09:37 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:50 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > If you have an existing already-invented parser for something, what's > > the benefit? > > Uniformity ... there are lots of parsers for editing config files hidden > in various tools; they all give you a completely different "API" for > changing config files. And usually you can't get to them for any other > purpose than what the tool is written for. > > Case in point: Webmin has a _ton_ of these config file editors in it. > Good luck trying to use those, even assuming you are working from a Perl > script (and better luck keeping that working across Webmin releases) The other thing that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet: how well does augeas preserve whitespace/comments etc when writing changes back out? (to play well with hand-edited config files) I got the impression reading the web site that it does this "for free" once you've written the input lens. (how well does it work?) I suspect that a hand-coded parser typically won't do as good a job of this. Hope this helps Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
