The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Bill Crawford]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:52, Joe Desbonnet wrote:

> Things like how to best 
> handle international characters.

 utf-8

> A list of common pit falls.

 Trying to create a "one size fits all" configuration language for all 
applications.

 Trying to shoehorn a popular data-encoding method (xml) into all niches you 
can think of.

> A a few  
> config file styles that are considered good, and a few that are
> examples of how not to do it.

 Good: Exim; dhcp; xinetd (as opposed to original inetd although the basic 
ideas are similar, the directory structure allowing split files is a big 
improvement over the single .conf file).

 Bad: almost anything using .ini ;) *please note the ALMOST* if the data set 
basically only has one or two dimensions, .ini will work fine. It will limit 
you in the future, maybe.