RB, David, thanks for the kind words :-). More inline below...
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:35 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] new config parser out... > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, RB wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 08:12, RB <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The sooner a developer realizes they can't please everyone, the more > >> quickly they can move on and actually get things done. I personally > >> would have preferred a wholesale abandonment of the decades-old > >> heritage, but can appreciate the utility to others and its > simplicity. > >> As Torvalds said, "... what's the point of being in charge if you > >> can't pick the bike shed color without holding a referendum on it? > So > >> I'm just going all alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like > >> it." > > > > Actually, having now read the blog entry fully (and shamelessly > > self-responding), I can't say I have any complaints about the new > > stuff. Every item you touch on was a concern of mine, and I frankly > > can't think of any others. The Perl-ish use of '$' to designate > > variables still feels odd in a non-programming environment, but it's > > not enough to complain about. > > > > The readability quotient is indeed being significantly raised - in > > particular, visual and logical blocking have taken a large leap > > forward. Congratulations, and thank you for your continued work! > > looks good to me. > > as far as the perl-ish use of '$', in many ways this is becoming a > programming environment, especially if there is going to be the ability > to > define our own properties (i.e. variables) in the future (something I > think I remember reading) This is not on my current TODO list, but definitely possible with the new system. It would make sense to get some actual use cases, so that I can begin to model it into the longer term todo. Rainer > > most people won't make use of this sort of sophisticated logic, but for > those that do it sure seems to make things much better than they were > before. > > David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
