Re: [Config4gnu-developer] Transport Level ?

[Jason L. <jl...@me...>]

I think a transport layer is a good idea. It means the configuration
software installed on one system could help a person administer many
machines. Perhaps it could be achieved through an existing virtual
filesystem library?

I'm thinking specifically of gnome-vfs, (see http://www.gnome.org/ and
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gnome-vfs/) but I know there are others.
Is a dependency on gnome-vfs a bad thing? Are there any other libraries out
there that could do this?

Also consider this:
The current implementation on CVS has the back-ends (the parsers) running as
separate processes from the front-ends. This allows the parsers to be
written in any programming language. Whatever transport layer it uses to
access the configuration files is up to that particular parser.

-- FYI for readers in general: an explanation of parsers/unparsers

parsers - read an application-specific configuration file and represents it
using an XML representation.

unparsers - a rather bad term (how do you unparse?), but it takes the XML
representation and writes out the application-specific configuration
--

~
Jason Long