On 7 Nov 2014 16:57, "Ian Wienand" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/29/2014 12:42 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: >> >> Another way to do this, which has been used in some other projects, >> is to define one option for a list of “names” of things, and use >> those names to make groups with each field > > > I've proposed that in [1]. I look forward to some -1's :) > > >> OTOH, oslo.config is not the only way we have to support >> configuration. This looks like a good example of settings that are >> more complex than what oslo.config is meant to handle, and that >> might be better served in a separate file with the location of that >> file specified in an oslo.config option. > > > My personal opinion is that yet-another-config-file in possibly > yet-another-format is just a few lines of code, but has a pretty high > cost for packagers, testers, admins, etc. So I feel like that's > probably a last-resort.
Mangling hardware data into an obtuse format is harder than it needs to be. Dropping a new file in /etc is very ready for a deployer.
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