On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 12:12:01PM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> XML is not a trivial item to parse. It is also a pure data holding environ.
>
> sendmail uses m4 which has macro and other programming ability. You would have
> to parse the xml, then run it thru an m4 type thing.
>
> A well commented and defined format is worth more to me than every app using
> the same format. exim is quite nice to configure for that reason. XML would
> just add more code.
Yet while exim is a good example of a program that's not difficult to
configure by editing its config file and is nicely programmable besides,
exim is also a great example of the problem with our current system.
eximconfig does not at all attempt to parse the configuration file. If
you run eximconfig, you lose every setting you make. eximconfig is a
great first-time or oops-I-hosed-my-setup configuration tool, but it's
not suitable for altering configuration.
I am really looking forward to some attempt to implement Wichert's
configuration proposal.
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