Philip Brown wrote:
There are two other things to consider here, whatever format is chosen.On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:37:06PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote:On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Philip Brown wrote:Preferably in an area that XML was designed for: in exchanging data between programs and OTHER programs, not between humans and programs.Simplify: GUI configuration tool (program) <--> Driver (program)There are GUI tools for Xfree configuration too, and they have managed to get along fine without using XML. If you want a "Library" for config file parsing, cant you just use whatever the x server itself uses?
1. We'd like to have other people be able to make configuration utilities. Looking at the number and variety of configuration utilites just for Nvidia's close-source drivers shows that this is a worthwhile goal.
2. Our first spin of a configuration utility will probably be written in Python or Tcl or someother scripting language. The idea being that we could prototype something functional quickly. I suspect that the XFree86 config file parser is not available for either of those languages. This is one of the reasons that using a VERY simple Python dictionary as the file format was considered.
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