On 08/02/12 14:21, Felix Berlakovich wrote: > I recently stumbled over Elektra (http://www.libelektra.org/ <http://www.libelektra.org/> but the page seems to be unreachable at the time of this writing) and because I find the idea of a central configuration store very interesting I’ve done some research. Anyway I had to realize that its acceptance is generally very low although I think it could provide some huge advantages to tools like webmin.
If you want an API to access and modify configuration files have a look at <http://augeas.net/>. It basically transforms a configuration file into a tree and offers an API for traversing/modifying the tree with XPath like expressions. The great benefit is that the augeas api is really simple, and you can basically transform most configuration files. There is also _no_ need for upstream projects to modify their configuration format, they can either just provide appropriate lenses themselves or wait for contributions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501ab185.6050...@spamt.net
