Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Gary Winiger wrote: > >> The work going forward is to provide a unified admin interface >> without a requirement for $EDITOR as the primary answer. > > I can't be the only person who feels uneasy about this trend away > from ASCII config files. For services/daemons, I get it, but I'm > not convinced when it comes to arbitrary command line programs. > It is too reminicent of Windoze's registry... >
You mean like gnome's configuration info? The problem with ascii files to control configuration is editing and upgrading. Designing a robust parser to catch and properly report user configuration errors is often tricky and not done well, and trying to handle syntax changes in config files across upgrades, installation and un-installation of patches, etc, is one of the major causes of package and patch breakage in Solaris. Configuration info needs to be owned by the app and edited by the app, I think. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
