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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Network configuration and bash
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:30:56
Message-Id: 20070214112810.2513de48@uberlaptop
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Network configuration and bash by Steve Long
1 On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:12:20 +0000
2 Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
5 > > On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
6 > >> XML! Actually, no. For me, libconfig[1] turned out to be very easy
7 > >> to work with. Its config file format is easy to write by hand and
8 > >> the parser resides in the library.
9 > >> [1] http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html
10 > >
11 > > On a simialr note there's libconfuse[1], which uses one of the most
12 > > common formats available: ini-like :)
13 > >
14 > > [1] http://www.nongnu.org/confuse/
15 >
16 > Woah, they both look nice. I note libConfuse hasn't been dev'ed for a
17 > couple of years, not a big issue. libconfig is "25K for the stripped
18 > C shared library" - neither is on my system atm; from the pkg size
19 > i'm guessing libConfuse isn't much bigger. I guess having a C++
20 > library as well helps libconfig tho. I like its format better as
21 > well ;)
22
23 All very nice, but our init scripts and config files for them should be
24 POSIX shell compliant.
25
26 If we move our network configuration to something other then shell then
27 I guess we could look at this.
28
29 Thanks
30
31 Roy
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Network configuration and bash Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>