At 10:23 AM 5/29/01 -0500, James G Smith wrote:
>Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >At 12:15 PM 5/28/01 -0400, Stephen Adkins wrote:
> >>The rendering of this widget as HTML requires at least the following
> >>
> >> * config information (Widget::Config)
>[snip]
> >> >Also will we require XML to configure? Or is this also an optional
> feature
> >> >that you more or less want for yourself but others can choose to not use?
> >>
> >>Configuration data is read in via the Widget::Config class, and this class
>can
> >>be replaced with a class which reads config data from any other source, as
> >>long as
> >>it conforms to the same calling interface.
> >>
> >>I was under the impression that XML was your desired means of writing a
> >>config file.
> >>Do you have a preference to use something different?
> >
> >I like XML for Config files, we use that in our Java stuff all the time.
> >But Perl is one of the nicest and flexible config file languages out there.
> >IE My config file is Perl.
> >
> >Anyway, I think it is weird to think of configuring just widgets. Usually
> >you configure an application and widgets are a part of that. But everyone
> >here will have a different way of preferring to write their application
> >config whether it's XML or Perl and what features of these that are used
> >(eg just a set of scalars or references to hashes or ... ?) or in the case
> >of XML using attributes versus subtags...
>
>IMHO, having a configuration API is much better than requiring a particular
>way to do configuration. If the backend configuration is done via Perl code,
>then any configuration file format can be supported with an appropriate
>module
>handling it.
YES!
>These widget configurations will need to be flexible enough that I can
>construct a page with them without any knowledge of how they will look -- the
>configurations should be tie-able to an overall theme for the site. I've
>always been a champion of themes for websites. I should be able to select a
>configuration at run-time without a lot of trouble.
I agree. I think this is basically a capability that exists in the rough
draft of the widgets though.
