On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jérôme Loyet wrote: > Le 23 avril 2010 11:31, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> a écrit : > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Jérôme Loyet wrote: > >> > >> Log: > >> switch the configuration syntax from xml to ini > >> It's been describe in the RFC: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/fpm/ini_syntax > > > I feel extremely unhappy about this patch. From what I've seen there > > is only a very small group of people that want to switch from the > > XML format to the INI format. Another group, was opposed to this > > move. I for one, find this new INI stuff extremely complicated and > > annoying. > > Please compare http://www.fatbsd.com/fpm/php-fpm.conf.ini and > http://www.fatbsd.com/fpm/php-fpm.conf.xml > Those 2 files have exactly the same values. > > r...@raptor> wc php-fpm.conf.* > 33 28 683 php-fpm.conf.ini > 48 77 1554 php-fpm.conf.xml > > Number of lines: 32% less lines in INI than XML > Number of words: 64% less words in INI than XML > Numbers of bytes: 57% less bytes in INI than XML > > Do you really think XML is easier to read/right than INI ?
Conciseness has never been a synonym for readability. The structured approach of the XML makes it much easier to see exactly which value belongs to which section. > > Instead of a nice ordered XML file we now have a mess of INI files > > that makes me think of Windows 3.11. > > So in your mind you want the php.ini to be changed to xml (php.xml) ? No, they are two different things. php.ini doesn't need sections, or nested structures whereas the FPM configuration benefits from it so that you can see immediately to which part a specific configuration setting belongs. There are two totally different uses of configuration files here, so there is no reason to jump through hoops to make them look a little bit the same and introducing lots of complexity at the same time. It's even more ridiculous because the original XML configuration format was working just fine. regards, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug
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