• Provide non-technical users an easy way to learn and manage the configuration of their application
• Provide all users automatic configuration upgrades
• Provide developers a framework to minimize the work required to achieve this promise.

Read more to learn about objectives and properties of Config-Model

• config-model-users at lists.sourceforge.net

Author:

• ddumont at cpan.org or domi.dumont at free.fr

• Reducing non-technical user confusion and mistakes during configuration file modifications.
• Time savings time during software upgrade by providing non-interactive configuration upgrades that merge user local configuration with new configuration requirements.
• Re-using these configuration tools to manage structured data beyond configuration files.
• Encouraging project developers to re-think the structure and ease of use of their project's configuration.
• Encouraging project developers to improve their project's configuration since migration is becoming easier on end users.

• Core config-model.
• GUI design.
• Curses UI design.
• WEB UI.
• GUI tests.
• Ease of use.
• Create models for other applications.
• Generalisation to system or to cluster.
• Handle config snippets à la Apache.
• Translation.
• Web site improvement.
• Doc reviews.

• Perl programming (core, UIs).
• UI design
• Web design (Web UI)
• Documentation
• Tests
• Application knowledge (model creation)

• Getting started:
  • Using Config-Model
  • Creating models
  • Creating models just for upgrades
• Available models and backends
• Config-Model design

• Download Perl distribution from CPAN
• On Debian/Ubuntu, run 'aptitude install libconfig-model-perl'
• On Mageia, run 'yum install perl-Config-Model'

• Browse source on Mercurial repository
• Download source from Mercurial with

hg clone http://config-model.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/config-model/config-model