Re: Config_Files proposal

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Note that we are only voting on the general file format. The remaining
> details of the file format (like how to represent comments) and spec
> will be worked out later.

I think this is kind of the wrong way around. Asking which of two completely
different file formats is better, and then trying to build an API based on
that, seems backwards.

That said, there's some things missing from the spec:

1) When you read three config files off the path, change a value that was in
the second one, and write it out again, where does it get written?

2) Can you have a "local" and a "global" config file, such that changes to
the local override the global, but it's possible to have only some of the
information in the local file? E.g., the system administrator says "the mail
server is a smtp-server.example.com, but each user fills in his own "from"
email address"?

3) If you enable #2, and then the user changes her email address, does it
also store back the mail server address, thereby preventing the
administrator from changing it?

4) If you have a list of items, such as a recent-file list, how are they
managed? Does it make sense to use [] notation or something?

5) Do comments go in the files? If so, how does that interact with the
previous questions?

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