Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 00:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > arent 'samba style configs' just glorified ini files ? :) they are -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) pgpj14cFi3NUy.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:43:54 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | arent 'samba style configs' just glorified ini files ? :) Linux doesn't have .ini files! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web :

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: == SNIP == That's a matter of opinion. I see it as a way to abstract away the configuration and utilize an existing library to handle the parsing. If we do want to eliminate outside depe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 06:37 pm, Paul Varner wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:14 -0400, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:12 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > | but I think having the xml configuration files a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:14 -0400, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:12 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > | but I think having the xml configuration files allows a much more > > > | robust configuration. > > > > > > Ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 00:12, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > I'd probably go > for something similar to the samba/gdm config files if we were to go > down this road: Such a format would be also simpler to parse in C, for example using libconfuse (that's *really* simple to use, and quite small), a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:12:48 -0700 Jeremy Huddleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > | but I think having the xml configuration files allows a much more | > | robust configuration. | > | > How so? Using XML doesn't magically make your data

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:12 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > | but I think having the xml configuration files allows a much more > > | robust configuration. > > > > How so? Using XML doesn't magically make your data files any different