--- Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My hope is that the configuration file becomes > entirely optional. There's > essentially nothing there which can't be > autodetected on a reasonable > system. > > At that point, the format of the file is moot. >
Actually long term I was hoping for this sort of thing there is still need for the file but if it was XML it should load easily int a personal preference... The big picture is I'd like to move towards a XML format for flat file view and database for ui managers. Moving to XML helps a lot in moving on to a system wide config data base. A zillion config file formats makes it difficult to contemplate. If everyone would move to and XML format then supporting config databases becomes possible. I would like to see happen in the unix world. It does require each major subsystem developer to look beyond there needs. Considering most of the responses so far I'm not sure thats going to be easy. Mike __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
