[et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: Augeas - a configuration API

[Mike MacCana]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:17 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Mike MacCana <mmaccana at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:07 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> >  I am pleased to announce a new configuration management project: Augeas,
> > a low-level configuration API and editing tool.
> >
> > Augeas' main goal is to make programmatic changes of configuration data
> > on Linux/Unix systems simple and safe. The main stumbling stone for this
> > is that configuration data is stored in numerous files in widely varying
> > formats. This is both next to impossible to change and is valuable in
> > many situations.
> >
> >  The amount of effort spent creating and re-creating tools to parse, edit
> > and transform a variety of unnecessary, unstructured data formats over the
> > last 30 years, and to continue doing this for the next 10 years, is less
> > than that required to:
> >

(create a standard format, proactively patch apps to support a standard
format, make an editor for that format, and start shipping packages)

> 
> Then it should have happened.. because we have had several million
> monkeys doing various things. I have seen multiple attempts at what
> you outline, 


When? The closest thing I've ever seen has been gconf and dconf, which
are limited to GNOME apps (albeit quite successful).

Mike

Cheers,

Mike

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