Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. März 2006 17:17:12 + Laurence Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that everyone here in pythonland seems to hate xml, Nothing but a stupid rumor :-) it may not be pretty, but we have to use it for at least some things anyway. We probably all spend quite a bit of our time

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-11 Thread Jim Fulton
baiju m wrote: I don't know whether there is something for Zope, anyway just posting. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f77979ad0e1dacd0/b97cc6d6af9439d6?tvc=2q=turbogears+configobj#b97cc6d6af9439d6 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html This would

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. März 2006 18:21:16 +0530 baiju m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know whether there is something for Zope, anyway just posting. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f77979a d0e1dacd0/b97cc6d6af9439d6?tvc=2q=turbogears+configobj#b97cc6d6af9439d6

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-09 Thread baiju m
I don't know whether there is something for Zope, anyway just posting. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f77979ad0e1dacd0/b97cc6d6af9439d6?tvc=2q=turbogears+configobj#b97cc6d6af9439d6 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html Regards, Baiju M

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Withers
Andreas Jung wrote: XML as config format must die :-) ZConfig has the right balance between a stupid INI format and XML. +sys.maxint The weak point at this discussion (as I mentioned earlier) is that we are discussion about a format and not about a flexible configuration framework that

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Chris McDonough
My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins use XML argument should die. Everybody knows how to edit XML nowadays,

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris McDonough wrote: My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins use XML argument should die. Everybody knows how to

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 7. März 2006 06:51:00 -0500 Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Stephan Richter wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:28, Andreas Jung wrote: Writing a parser for some kind of INI format or ZConfig-style parser is an engineering task for an average programmer..I think we should discuss the framework and not a particular format (I agree with Dieter: it's

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-3-7 01:16 +0100: Dieter Maurer wrote: ... While ZConfig allows you the describe related material together and without indirections, the ConfigParser format forces you to introduce indirections and to spread related definitions over a longer area. Yes,