[dovecot] Re: Configuration file format changes
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 02:56, Brad Figg wrote:
Just my $.02 (and that's probably overcharging). Anytime I need a config file I use XML and an open source parser.
I hate XML config files. Not going to happen. Ever. :)
I think they're difficult to read with standard text editor. Even more difficult to modify. And creating read-only parser for just about any config file format doesn't take hardly any time. External XML libraries would also annoy people.
Today, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
I hate XML config files. Not going to happen. Ever. :)
I think they're difficult to read with standard text editor. Even more difficult to modify. And creating read-only parser for just about any config file format doesn't take hardly any time. External XML libraries would also annoy people.
Yay for sexp syntax!
see http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/lispreader/ for a nice implementation of a suitable reader.
Ha, ha, only serious (-:
Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, asf@jabber.at, antifuchs
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