Andy Wingo <[email protected]> skribis: > On Wed 16 Dec 2015 23:14, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 08:04:19AM +0000, Andy Wingo wrote: >>> On Tue 15 Dec 2015 22:58, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> > Andy Wingo <[email protected]> skribis: >>> > >>> >> * gnu/services/mail.scm: New file. >>> > >>> > Regarding the Schemefied configuration, do you think Dovecot’s >>> > configuration model is stable enough that this won’t have to change >>> > much? Is a “cheat mode” (where one can pass raw strings to paste into >>> > the configuration file) needed? >>> >>> Finally, I'm not adverse to a .conf file escape hatch. It's especially >>> convincing in a context where other services do the same -- we should >>> have a greater degree of uniformity across services. However if other >>> services implemented a 100%-solution Scheme configuration interface, I >>> wonder if we would still want the .conf file interface. Dunno! >> >> For 3rd party software, I think we should make it possible for users to >> use upstream's configuration language, preferably as a text block inside >> of the service configuration block. > > Point well taken, thanks for the input. I'll add the ability to > specify the configuration as a string, as you suggest.
Yeah, I think that having a “cheat code” that allows one to provide strings to be pasted into the configuration file can be useful. Ludo’.
