Le jeudi 17 novembre 2005 à 19:18 +0000, Joe Desbonnet a écrit :
Slightly related to this thread -- is there any policy regarding the
format of configuration files for new software or re-writes of
existing software.
XML would be the obvious choice (it is both human and machine
readable), but I did see a recent post here that requested "anything
but XML".
I think a lot of people would reformulate it as "anything but the XML
style gconf uses". OTOH has anyone a real beef with for
example /etc/fonts/fonts.conf?
XML is no worse than any other text file format, OTOH *many* people have
been abusing it. So you just need some strong style conventions. XML by
itself is no silver bullet.
Regards,
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Nicolas Mailhot