Hi, Quoting Dominique Dumont (2015-01-06 09:08:41) > On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:52:15 Paul Wise wrote: > > Personally I don't think this is a feasible project, there are too many > > opinions on how to configure software and too much software with more > > complex configuration (such as programming languages or domain-specific > > languages) requirements for there to be any chance of global agreement > > amongst Free Software developers. > > That's why I've written cme and Config::Model [2]: this works on top of > existing configuration files so existings projects are not impacted.
other distributions try to do similar things for a limited set of packages. For example OpenWrt has uci which is quite powerful in its configuration format and is able to configure their whole base system: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci > I agree that Config::Model cannot address all configurations (like exim's). Some configuration formats seem to be even turing complete: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/sendmail-as-turing-machine.txt cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150106102935.15300.56932@hoothoot
