On 17/Apr/2008 19:39 David Lutterkort wrote .. > > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:22 -0700, Jamie Cameron wrote: > > This sounds like an excellent project .. it's like what I've done > > within Webmin, but written in a much more consistent way and more > > usable by other programs. > > Projects like Webmin were actually part of the motivation for Augeas - I > wanted to build something that serves as a lowest common denominator > that can be used by larger config mgmt systems as a config editing API. > I'd be curious to hear if you think it would be useful for Webmin.
It certainly would be, as it could free me from the effort of writing my own poorly-coded config file parsers. Do you have Perl bindings for your API? Also, do you rely entirely on regular expressions, or did you have to use lex/yacc style parsing too? I found that some file formats with nested blocks and quoted strings (like named.conf) are hard to fully parse correctly using only regexps. - Jamie _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.openmanagement.org http://lists.openmanagement.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
