Re: Propersel for standerd configuration system.
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:29:41PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> sjc@delphi.com wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:23:28AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >
> Second off
> data will be regually exported to text based backup files (say like
> every hour) so if something goes wrong it can easilly read the text
> based file to fix the corrupted parts.
hmm this sounds good at first...but has some problems.
First: What if the configuration error or orruption takes more than an hour (or even
more than a day) before it is noticed? it could start dumping off corrupt data
(depending on whether or not it notices the corruption)
second: seems execcive
> > > So what do you think of this idea?
> >
> > As you can see I don't like it.
> >
> > I could however see writing a library or some sort of "interface" that programs
> > can use. This would take the burden of writting a parser and working out the
> > more "exact details" of the configuration file off of the designer of the
> > application, and place it on the library.
> >
> > This would allow the library to basically do whatyou say (make a database of
>
> I really just should not have mentioned the windows registry as most
> people hate it.
not most people....just those people who know of it and have had to
deal with it :)
> However what I was thinking off would is exactly what
> you are thinking off. There will just be a server running where
> programs can talk to to change their configuration.
Thats not exactly what I was thinking of...I was thinking litterally of a
library. just the code to do it in a nice dynamically linkable library.
I don't see the need for a server running...those chores would best be handled
by some other utility which uses the API. SUing an actual server for this
seems like major overkill to me.
> However it can also
> translate things to in from the old fashion configuration files so that
> applications don't have to use the library if they don't wants to.
well thats the nice thing about the library...all you have to do is update
the library, and use a utility to dump the old configs back through it...
and presto...your using a new file format.. ALL programs which
use the library would automatically use the new one.
Ya know...while I think that the registry, database, and server are all
overkill in their own way...I am almost surprized that such a library has never
been written. I mean, think how many programs need to parse a config file?
(btw HAS someone written such a library? if so I have never heard of it)
-Steve
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