Re: Configuration management, revision 3
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> I like everything about it, except the language. IMO it has the wrong
> basic assumption, namely that the configuration module controls the
> frontend like a programmer controls the machine (the language is
> essentially astripped-down special-purpose BASIC). I would like the
> language to be redesigned from scratch, with the assumption that the
> module just _asks_ the frontend, and the frontend is free to either
> 1) echo back the defaults the module has provided,
> 2) return cached data or
> 3) ask the user.
But this assumption is already made! Notice in the proposal where it talks
about non-interactive frontends, which take care of 1 and 2.
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