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Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 06:46 +0000, Steve Long wrote: |
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>> Failing that, a plaintext config file along the lines discussed in [1] |
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>> would be cool. awk could parse it pretty quickly. |
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>> [1] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/b//archives/2007/01/20/T11_58_29/ |
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> Something like Debian's /etc/network/interfaces? |
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> http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man5/interfaces.5.gz |
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Looks good to me :D Nice and simple to parse. |
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> Why re-invent yet another format when there already are many out there, |
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> well tested over years. |
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I totally agree. |
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Bug me (igli) in #friendly-coders if you're on IRC and I'll help with it; |
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but I'm not a network guy, so someone else will have to lead the work (i'm |
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not that motivated basically, but it looks like an easy job-- there's |
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always existing code fall back on, much as it pains me to read it ;) QA |
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would need to be sorted too. *shrug* |
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I'd do the function too, though, since it matches existing configs and you'd |
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probably end up calling it (or a variant) in any case. |
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Not sure how the mapping thing would fit into it (not my bailiwick) but the |
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existing stuff I've seen so far can all be done with the function call. If |
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I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me (gently, I hope ;) |
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