Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:21:19PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
> Sorry I forgot to send this to the list too...
>
> > > Does somebody know anything about any common format for
> > > configuration files? Does any sense to propose this, somebody knows
> > > if there are references of this in Linux Standard Base ?
> > > Do makes any sense even the sole idea of such format ?
> >
> > ASCII text? There's some commonality about using "#" to start
> > comments. Friendly programs give verbose examples and descriptions in
> > the examples.
> >
> :) Perhaps I failed to make clear my point...
>
> I meant a common metalanguage, so that it could be possible to write
> one single application as interface to handle any config file.
> Think of .ini files, but with some capabilities to express more complex
> data formats. Optionality, multiplicity, one among many choices, one or
> more among many choices, something like this...
> The possible configurations should be expressed in a template file.
> I think it would be pretty to type 'config <name_of_config_file>' and
> it opens a text-mode or graphic-mode interface allowing an easy
> navigation through config options (radio buttons, multiple selections,
> free text fields) labeled with the to-be-configured attribute.
> Any properly defined configuration template should be accepted by this
> 'config' application, and an actual configuration file should be
> generated and saved from the user selections.
> I know debconf allows configuration of packages, but I don't know the
> details and if it can be generalized to use in everyday configs.
> Does such a monster makes sense ??
>
You should take a look at gconf and its derivatives. The idea is
a common configuration/registry-like interface for applications
and any number of different backends.
Damn. I had a link to some good gconf developer stuff (including
rational), but I can't find it now...
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