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: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 00:37:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 07:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3CF6846C.3544EB21@nbi.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1022830668 8018 129.241.83.82 (31 May 2002 07:37:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 07:37:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25057 Date: 2002-05-31T07:37:48+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 30 May 2002 16:12:52 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote: > O.K. What's wrong with this idea? The package stores/retrieves its data as > some binary format, but the package has operations to import and export the > data as some kind of ASCII format. Hence, you'd be able to operate > day-to-day in binary format but if someone needed to use ASCII for some > occasional hand-updating or porting, that capacity could be readily built. > It would possibly avoid any need to do heavy error-checking on the ASCII > file - just reject anything that is unrecognizable & force the user to get > it right. Why why why do we need binary format? We are talking about configuration files not data files. When was the time to load a configuration file in any way a time-hog? Preben