Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn
On Fri, April 23 1999, Robin Stephenson <robin.stephenson@blackwell.co.uk> wrot
e:
|>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:36:06 +0100
|>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Swegen <dave@recursive.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
|
|Dave> On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 20:31 -0500, David Welton wrote:
| [...attribution a bit screwed up, I think...]
|>> > In fact I believe that's their most glaring weakness. Enevitably
|>> > popular software has more and more parsers that read and write it's
|>> > config files. Note that they are DIFFERENT parsers(not equivalent
|>> > ones). [...]
|>>
|>> It would be nice to use standard embeddable languages, such as Guile,
|>> Tcl, Perl, Python or what have you. [...]
| [...]
|Dave> [...] XML [...]
|The disadvantage, of course, is that *every* program would have to be
|ported to use XML as its config file format. Who fancies tackling
Not necessarily. If you add modules to convert back and forth from
"old-style" to XML, at least until the upstream integrates XML into
it, you can avoid that.
Cheers,
--Amos
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