This one time, at band camp, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >Ni Jamie > >On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:27:32PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> I also wrote about this on the wiki: >> http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Talk:Editfiles_Considered_Harmful > > >A Nice write-up. I am not sure if an introduction of a whole section >"config" is necessary, it seems that there is no that much of a >difference from the functionality of editfile
The only difference in my mind is that a configuration file is a special kind of file, one with a required structure and rules (i.e. those placed on it by the program that will parse it as input) that need to be followed. To reflect that key difference, I made it separate from editfiles, so that one would be less inclined to do something that broke the configuration :-) Of course one could still config: and editfiles: the same file if they really wanted to :-) Only in my mind that configuration files are a higher level than text files, so to make that clear that there's s >introduced. Even more -- it would get advantage of using advanced >editfile constructs to determine sections etc, so in files like >apache/ssh configs you would be able to do local to some section >(virtual host definition/hosts subgroup in ssh) changes. > >So as for me - it is that your already prototyped macro is missing >from real implementation :-) > >-- > Yaroslav Halchenko > Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers > Office (973) 353-5440 x263 Fax (973) 353-1171 > Ph.D. Student CS Dept. NJIT > > > >-- >Help-cfengine mailing list >Help-cfengine@gnu.org >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
