Re: Configuration management, revision 3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >
> > 3. Accessing the configuration
> > The configuration space is implemented by a shared library. This library
> > contains all functions necessary to open the database, retrieve and store
> > information and close it.
> >
>
> When you get to the implementation phase, keep in mind that there are
> other libraries like this already, such as gnome-config and libPropList,
> and it would be great to merge those two. So be sure Debian doesn't write
> yet another one. ;-)
I second this. Debian should not be reinventing the wheel and
use standard based solution whenever possible.
In particular, there is an IETF proposed standard (RFC 2244 and
2245) called "Application Configuration Access Protocol" (ACAP).
While targeted at accessing client program options,
configurations and preference information, it may be applicable
to this problem. There is also source code available of a
working prototype.
Home site is:
http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/acap/
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Jean Pierre
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