On 3/29/06, Shane Stixrud shane@geeklords.org wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
A full ack on this, we would solve a lot of items if we could move forward to have a standard lib for all this. But it will be very hard to have agreement on how to solve it and even more to make projects move over from their current ways.
I think the process of getting other projects to use this "standard"
would
be to put some though into the design and mark multiple backends and multiple interfaces part of the design. If there are libs, modules, languages binds, etc with as little dependancy hell as possible, I think projects will eventually gravitate to this solution. I know I wouldn't
roll
my own config parser if there is a perfectly good one already included
on my
system , or which can easily be added to any system.
I agree design is key here. However our community generally wants no part of discussing requirements and then writing specifications in English. They want actual code... Is there a good case here for gathering requirements and perhaps writing a specification, getting feedback from the major players prior to code being written?
Cheers, Shane
Only case I see here is individual desire. People passioate enough about
this need to solve the problem. I and apperently many others simply do not see this as a big enough problem. I am actually suprised by the length of this thread. Don't get me wrong, I see the problem, and I think I understand it. It just isn't a hurdle I run into often. Now, if we were talking about the sendmail conf files.... -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.