XML/XSD based configuration files.

[Cristian Tibirna]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:44, Frans Englich wrote:
> > needed. XML is not nearly as human friendly, and i think that's an
> > important thing to keep in mind as well.
>
> I would consider that such a low priority it can be neglectable; that
> people need to manually hack files is the bug, not that it's difficult.

I'm sure that if you read the above you disagree with yourself. Needing to 
manually manipulate own data (configurations in this case) isn't a bug. It's 
an inalienable right! And that's one of the reasons Windows obscures config 
in the first place, very probably.

That being said, I still think making config. available from central repos 
(like ldap or db) is an essential goal in this connected world. If this 
requires using XML, so be it. I'm sure somebody would then come with simple 
cli tools for attending to the obscured XML data.

But we definitely should avoid even thinking that accessing data (config data 
here) manually is a bug.


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Cristian Tibirna
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