From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-18 14:55:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0FAC67.A4861809@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:55:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1024437323 66.75.151.160 (Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:55:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:55:23 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26312 Date: 2002-06-18T21:55:23+00:00 List-Id: 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? -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.