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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:32:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote:
:> Yes.  But the problem is not with the various file formats, it is with
:> the approach.  At this point we should be debating a set of requirements
:> and a strawman interface package specification.  If the result favors
:> one or the other file format, so be it.
: 
: Seconded! That's what I've been saying. Work out an API first, and the file
: format will pretty much either fall out of it or be arbitrary where it
: doesn't.

O.K., and I say, for the last time, that this consensus rules out
any configuration process requirements that are not as
close to computers as interfaces and file formats.
I'm hoping and confident that Ada applications are configured by people
competent enough to do well with properties files.
As Stephen has said, don't use Config_Files otherwise.

Cheers,
 Georg