Re: [leaf-devel] Template system [was Webconfiguration]

[Erich Titl]

Hi Folks

too many posts and too many good ideas to reply to.....

Bear with me if I throw in my $ 0.02

I belive any fat configuration system which we'd introduce here will change the lean and mean machine aspect all LEAF variants have in common. IMHO this rules out Perl, Java and SAX (sorry :-( )

I downright love the abstraction concept brought up here but believe in flat files as old fashioned as they may be. Speed is IMHO no issue here and for example the SuSe distribution does lots of its configuration stuff using flat files.

Naming conventions and namespace issues could be levered by using individual config files in a common configuration directory and enforcing a name scheme for them, for example packageName.conf. Now the parser for the configuration files could easily prepend the package name to the actual parameter. This could take the sting out of namespace restrictions. The transformation process will turn these mangled parameters into what is needed by the configuration process.

Matt et al have a valid point if they ask for pre deployment configuration. Unless we have a repository which builds a distribution on demand I doubt this can be achieved on the traditional floppy distribution. Few posts on the leaf lists complain about memory issues. I believe we could build a CD distribution which includes many modules and drivers, preloads drivers for many NIC's and a ssh daemon. Now we'd have a running installation which is too fat for real life but which would allow an embedded configuration tool to be used to tailor the actual configuration. Write this to floppy or maybe a DOM/DOC/FLASH is not difficult then.

Well what do you expect for $ 0.02

cheers

Erich

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