Re: [PLUG] XML, text, and the development of unix

[Alex Birch <kes@lifesabirch.org>]

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> But I think having XML files replace passwd would be ridiculous.
> It'll make programmatic access to those files slower, which is
> pretty definitely not something you want. It also violates the
> principle of least surprise (it's been the way it is for a long
> time), and it's fixing something that isn't broken.

Would making the .conf file in binary be worth it for the speed up?  How
frequently are you going to reading those files?

I'm a huge fan of extreme programming: where your variables are your
documentation. XML allows programs to use the same conf files but ignore
tags that aren't important for them. This could facilitate migration 
between sendmail and exim.




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