The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 29 mars 2006 à 04:44 +0100, Bill Crawford a écrit :

> > A list of common pit falls.

Pitfall #1 : creating the perfect general serialization API so
developers can save whatever data they feel like to without thinking 5s
how other people will interact with it. This is what I call
software-oriented junk

Pitfall #2 : creating handcrafted file format no standard tools can
interact sanely with. This is human-oriented junk

People tend to dismiss XML because a lot of its proponents have fallen
in pitfall #1. Usually they jump in pitfall #2 as a result.

A popular way to combine pitfall #1 and #2 is to create configuration
tools which use a private data backend with pitfall #1, and convert it
at save time in the actual handcrafted app conf file with pitfall #2.

Good projects start by choosing general syntax rules that make software
happy (usually XML) then fine-tune them with humans in mind (what if the
whole file had to be written by a human in a text editor and you had to
write the associated manual) See for example fontconfig, apache ant
syntax, etc

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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