On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:28 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
I have seen variants on the same 200 lines of code for 10 years,
even
windows had an API for ".ini" files from windows 3.11, yet Unix/Linux
still has no common configuration standard.... Now we have some people
pushing for XML and other horrors - if the O/S had tackled the problem
head on then the differences between distributions would be less and the
portability of configuration would be greater. Unix people seem to agree
small files, plain text - yet they have no common API ?? Doesn't this
just contribute to the mess !
No, as what could seem best suited for one couldn't be flexible/scalable
for another. I think that trying to find a single configuration scheme
(one-size-fits-all) is a bad idea. Just imagine storing thousands Snort
rules on a Windows-like registry.
The KEY=value methapor is not well suited for every kind of application.