| Re: Re: [Users] OpenVZ tools [message #7544 is a reply to message #7509] |
Tue, 17 October 2006 11:38   |
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Dag Wieers wrote:
>> Although I do not see any problem with "shell-oriented" config files. They are
>> easy to edit and can be easily read from any code (be it C or Perl or Python
>> or whatever). So, can you be more specific and tell us why you don't like such
>> configs?
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> I understand that switching would be hard. But a better syntax would allow
> more interesting things. I like python's configuration format and syntax,
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What is python's configuration format? Something like yum.conf? I.e.
almost-shell-style with sections denoted by [sectname]?
Or something else?
> but anything better would do.
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> The shell-variable way of doing things is limited and prone to errors.
> Plus I generally do not prefer the lowest common denominator as a standard
I'm a bit scared by language-specific config formats. Seen a number of
cases when people use perl hashes in a config and just source those.
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