> Thats just plain retarded. Extra dependencies on something that > is clearly not needed is pointless. So you'd call the apache guys as well "retarded" using xml-style in their httpd.conf, as it wouldn't be needed there either?
> Especcially since xml doesn't give us any extended > benefit over parsing a simple plain text configuration file. As I already pointed out below: Maybe *you* do not have (or see in the moment) any benefit over this, but for sure developers of third-party applications. -- Wolfram > Now XML > manpages are another story because they make it significantly > easier to > maintain. > > Dan > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:59:08AM +0200, Wolfram A. Kraushaar wrote: > > > You make it seems like using getopt_long has difficulty in > > > which it really has none. > > > > >From the description in the man page popt seems to offer some > > additional functionality over getopt and getopt_long, so I just > > thought you might consider using it in a future version. > > > > I just had another "weird" idea for a future release: > > "xmlifying" the dbmail.conf, and parsing it with expat/libxml2 > > so there's no need to maintain a handwritten parser with all > > the hassle around it. This would also be a benefit for > > third-party applications/scripts written in php and perl, as > > it's way more easy to utilize the xml-parser libraries > > of those languages than writing a parser for the dbmail.conf > > file in the current style. > > > > If anyone's interested I'd give it a go in some spare time... > > > > -- > > Wolfram > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev >
