>Let me phrase my question rather bluntly: does it pay to provide a very >minimal set of config settings given the fact that almost every vendor >has very different ways to do this. Also, in my experience customers >tend to use those vendor-specifc ways, simply because they need it. To >be honest, I think we will be hesitant to implement standard >configuration simply because I do not see any customer demand for such. >I think we can put our ressources to efforts that receive a higher >demand. > >It may just be my personal feeling ... what do the other implementors >think? > >Rainer
Having a minimum set of configuration options would probably be a waste of time in my view as all implementations are so different. Since all implementations use (or can be made to use) a config file, my vote is for a free form string variable. The format of the text depends on the vendor. All we need to agree on is a standard cookie to identify the vendor and version. Regards Andrew