[dovecot] Re: Configuration file format changes

Andreas Fuchs asf at void.at
Tue Feb 25 10:30:38 EET 2003


Today, Timo Sirainen <tss at 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 at acm.org>, asf at jabber.at, antifuchs



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