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Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains



On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:06 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:48:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2012/11/21/194431
> > > 
> > > There is a rather bad smell regarding all this. 
> > 
> > None of the systemd advocates ever mentioned for example the real
> > reason why it uses such an ugly configuration syntax and Windoze
> > format files.                                            ^^^^^^^
> 
> The:
> 
> [crap]
> foo = bar
> 
> format for config files is widely despised.  And this is not a systemd
> issue, even git uses that crap instead of something better like xml,
> or simpler, like the hierarchical format used by apt that resembles
> C++ classes.

This 'crap' is far easier for humans to edit (without specialised
tools).  And *that* is most certainly in the spirit of Unix, even if
this particular format is most widely used by some parts of Windows.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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