On 3/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">sean</b> <<a href="mailto:seanlkml@sympatico.ca">seanlkml@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But what is the advantage of building an entire new config language<br>around these wrappers? Couldn't they be manipulated just as easily<br>with shell or python? Can the administrator make simple ad-hoc<br>command line config file changes?
</blockquote><div><br>Experience shows that is more difficult and less effective to write a lot of different configuration parsers, then patching the original softwares to make them read configuration atoms from other sources and formats.
<br><br>Avi<br></div><br></div>