Re: Configuration frontend
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > I know perl wouldn't be a good thing to have as the backend
> > configuration info format... Perhaps python or something home grown.
>
> Using a standard communication-channel such as a pipe or stdin/stdout
> and make a simple language of commands that a script and a frontend can
> exchange sounds better: it would mean developers can still use their
> favourite language to drive the whole thing.
Seconded.
Tying us to _one_ scripting language (be it perl, python or tri-intercal)
would be a big design bug.
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