On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:10:26PM +0930, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 02:01 pm, Keith Packard wrote: > > My hope is that the configuration file becomes entirely optional. There's > > essentially nothing there which can't be autodetected on a reasonable > > system. > > > > At that point, the format of the file is moot. > > It has to be editable for those who still use a config file (custom settings, > modelines, etc) and personally I think the current format is quite nice for > hand-editing. What I've seen of XML doesn't have that quality.
Agreed big time. The current format is great for cranking out configs for hardware that I don't have on hand. For example, a friend once needed a CVS version of XFree86 but had never built it. I was able to crank out a config for him and he could then build pretty painlessly. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon. He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses the Hell out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
