Hi, I would like to suggest as a text template format for the automatic generation of init scripts to use a format similar to the one used in package control files. This uses sections that can easily be parsed without using complex parsers.
I would go like this: Requires: Requires_Running: Start_Parameters: Stop_Parameters: Edward On 05/06/2016, Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 16:41:22 +0200 > Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> OK but can we avoid polarization and use "markup (language >> definition)" instead of XML here? I share and understand well >> everyone's concerns about XML here and think it won't help mutual >> understanding of what you point out if we keep the unfortunate example >> Florian did. True that his suggestion is interesting. >> >> FTR I think YAML is a very interesting tree structured markup language >> very easy to read for humans and parse for machines. > > YAML is good. Python has an excellent YAML parser. YAML would be an > excellent choice for Florian's idea. > > YAML has no end tags, which means it gets cumbersome when data becomes > longer than an easily viewed line. So it's possible that instead of > *containing* scripts, the YAML would *point to* scripts. > > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? > http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
