Re: Configuration management, revision 3
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 01:45:18AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> (nesting example removed)
It wasn't a nesting exmple. :-)
> I was thinking about a language which seperates the two: first you
> declare all variables you want to use and give each a priority. In the
> next section you state dependencies between the variables and possibly
> a decision process.
Yes! This is how it should be.
> I'll see if I can come up with a nice design :)
Cool! [1]
> Even if the parser is (somewhat) complicated, we only need to
> implement it once.
Right. It should be put in a shared library IMHO.
Oh, and BTW, I think this scheme should be implemented so that it is
not too Debian-specific. I believe the whole GNU/Linux community
should benefit from this, and if we are lucky, we might get people
outside Debian to help in the maintenance, too.
Antti-Juhani
[1] I'm one of those who think things should be done *right* :-)
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