Re: A standard package for config files is needed

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Tue, 28 May 2002 16:44:09 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote:
> Here's just a thought: The Grace components has the aim of creating a
> Map component. Assuming you can get serialization out of a Map
> component via 'Read, 'Write, 'Input & 'Output, it would be the natural
> data structure on which to build an INI file. If not Grace, perhaps
> some other package would be useful to build on, but I'd imagine a spec
> that was similar, just narrowed down to the needs of an INI file. With
> a Map, you've got everything you need to store & query attribute/value
> pairs, eh? (Editing by hand might be a bit of a problem. But why
> couldn't an extension include some kind of editor? It might even
> evolve into its own form of registry?)

The user should be allowed to edit the config files by hand yes.

> Assuming we get a Grace component to do this, it might even make a
> nice extension to the Grace library - a descendent of Maps that
> handles initialization work?

Yes it would be nice to have this in Grace, but at the moment it would
be nice to develop something that can be used until grace is getting
along.

Preben