Re: FWIW: script vs. configurtion file
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:36:24 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> And, conversely, adding identifiers to attempt to cover every
> necessary possible configuration is always going to result in a
> boatload of arcane terms with arcane semantics. (And you still have
> the issue of engineering clairvoyance versus allowing sysads to wire
> together custom one-off configurations.)
>
> You can't force simplification.
Well, you can...
Just have the program read six identifiers from the config file, and
ignore everything else.
So the question is: How much simplification do you want to enforce,
given that the other side of the simplification coin is
non-configurability?
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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