On 3/28/06, Joe Desbonnet jdesbonnet@gmail.com wrote:
Leave aside implementation for the moment... a best practices document (hell, just a Wiki page) on configuration file format would go along way. Just a list of recommendations. Things like how to best handle international characters. A list of common pit falls. A a few config file styles that are considered good, and a few that are examples of how not to do it.
Again this is not a discussion that should be happening inside the scope of fedora.
Hint: google for configuration specification discussions that have occured already in distribution and application neutral forums. Hint 2: freedesktop and related mailinglists Hint 3: D-Conf
-jef