> > > Thus maybe writing config files with an XML format would help ? > > > > Furthermore, as I said before, there may be a lot of config files. > > Why not have ALL configuration into a single file ? That could be a hash, a > > berkeleydb file (I think E17 uses such files for conf), or whatever. (isn't > > it the way MS Win does with is registry ?) > > For files needed by everyone, this file would be /config (or /etc/config), > > for personnal config that could be ~/config. Thus only two locations for > > all configs. > > Now that's starting to sound a lot like the SMF properties database. >
Here's a simiar concept for a FreeBSD based firewall. I don't agree with the "One Big Config File," for reasons already given, but the ideas presented are interesting. http://m0n0.ch/wall John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
