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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:02:15PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> Using 'widely varying formats' is not 'valuable'. It's an unfortunate
> accident that wastes everyone's time with various horrible bandaid
> solutions, and occasionally makes destroying user data an 'accepted
> limitation' of tools like system-config-named.

Different formats suit different uses, and in any case I wouldn't
trust the people who would develop this new "super-format" not to do
something stupid like using XML.

Rich.

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