Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: > Do we have an idea of how many configuration files can be > described in terms of such a model?
I do not know how many. I'd say most of the files that do not use variables. For instance exim config is out. I do not know for Apache config files. So far, I've created models for OpenSsh [1] (quite easy) and Xorg [2] (more challenging and the model is still not complete) You will be able to try yourself OpenSsh editor as soon as libconfig-model-openssh-perl is accepted by ftp-masters. > (I generally tend to code configuration files in a scripting > language if the code is written in a scripting language). Uh ? > While I suspect a large number of our configuration files are > simple, I fear that a significan chunk of them are fairly complex; and > possibly not amenable to being described in terms of a non-trivial > model. Agreed. We may need to use hybrid solution for the most complex configuration files. Something like exim-like template + Config::Model for the template variables. All the best [1] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DDUMONT/Config-Model-OpenSsh-1.203/lib/Config/Model/models/ [2] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DDUMONT/Config-Model-Xorg-0.513/lib/Config/Model/models/ -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
