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

[Mike MacCana]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:22 +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 15:01 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Even if you convince upstream to adopt your grand unified configuration scheme
> 
> And therein lies the rub. I've been very careful to make sure that
> Augeas' usability does not depend on any upstream adopting it - they
> have perfectly valid reasons not to do that, starting with that they
> can't tell which proposed scheme will actually work out (and therefore
> deserve their support) 
> 
> Augeas (or any similar config scheme) _has_ to be workable without
> upstream support - it would be great if we get some eventually [1], but
> we first need to prove that Augeas is worth their effort.
> 
> David
> 
> [1] And for now, it would really only require them shipping a schema
> with their software, i.e. plonking one text file
> into /usr/share/augeas/lenses


Cool. It would be really useful to see some doco online about how an
upstream could support the forma - and see some sample schemas for, say,
Samba / BIND / Apache HTTPD.


Cheers,

Mike

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