Ah Dan, as ever so subtle. I am with you on this one nonetheless. Dbmail doesn't
need xml at the moment, for two reasons:
1) as Dan points out, it ain't broken, and xml formatting the config won't
actually have much added value. Well, actually the current config parser stands
to be improved. Inline comments for instance are not handled nicely. But that is
a really minor issue.
2) More importantly however, there is discussion about moving major parts of the
configuration back into the config table in the/a database. Personally I think
that this is even whackier than xml for many reasons. The current filebased
config setup is extremely versatile, and in line with both user expectations and
unix tradition. Still, if db-based configs is the wave of the future for dbmail,
much of this discussion will be moot.
Wolfgang, since you too seem to have some strong feelings about this issue,
perhaps you could explicate some of the actual real-world applications an
xml-ified config would have.
Dan Weber wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:23:17AM +0200, Wolfram A. Kraushaar wrote:
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?
Calling httpd.conf xml-style is really stretching the whole concept. It just
isn't xml at all. I know many apache projects use xml configs, but the webserver
isn't one of them.
Apache has a complex configuration, it needs sgml. Dbmail does not and it
would be pointless to implement for the limited context of our configuration
files.
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.
You are full of shit. "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
Dan
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