Hallöchen!
Ivan Illarionov writes:
> On Fri, 02 May 2008 01:21:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> In contrast to many other areas of software, configuration files
>> needn't be compatible with anything except the user's brain. So
>> even if the rest of the world uses config format X, you can
>> safely stick with config format Y.
>
> There are several reasons for compatibility:
>
> 1. The user or another developer might want to write GUI front-end
> to configure your app. With standard format this would be easier.
The libraries are there after all -- I don't speak about an own
format.
> [...]
>
> 3. Bigger applications that include your sofware as one of its
> components may need to automate configuration process and update
> several config files of different smaller apps from one global
> setting.
If you do something complex like this, porting an application to
another config format is the smallest problem. Or in other words:
This is not something I'd optimise config handling for.
> That's precisely why first XML and now YAML became popular for
> config files.
I can't speak for YAML, but XML was not used for the config files I
have in mind, but as a machine-readable serialisation format for
apps settings that you can set in the app itself.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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