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

[Mike MacCana]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 10:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> 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.
> 

Admins don't like XML because vi isn't an XML editor. It's the
equivalent of Microsoft Word, treating presentation and content like
they're the same thing. 

Config files aren't logically combinations of characters, lines, and
paragraphs, They're item / value pairs, sections, and subsections.

This is why I mentioned creating an editor earlier. There's no reason
why you need to see XML when you edit it. shouldn't be able to say 'jump
to next subsection, copy this object, paste it three times' in the same
way we do with lines and paragraphs in vi.

I'd call it vix.

Cheers,

Mike

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