[Config4gnu-developer] please clarify

[Andreas J. <aj...@du...>]

Hi,

looking at your project, I have these questions:
(could be put into your FAQ)

 - why not GConf?
   Yes, i want to know in details, very very in deep. And I know that
   gconf is now what you want, but I'd also like to know why starting
   without it is easier as with.

 I'm not related to the gconf project in anyway, have not even used it.

 - Is part of the design, that applications such as Apache, Samba etc.
   will kick their own config file formats, parsers, writers and use
   the result of this project as universal replacement?

 - Is part of the project to get your hands dirty and do these changes?

c4g isn't the first project about the topic. All other projects i know
start with new code for some reason, and either straight not change the
application (only provide a wrapper around the applications config file
format - yast, webmin, linuxconf etc.) or theoretically allow an
application to be rewritten using the new library/format/parser/writer,
but never implement this on their own.

If I understand your documentation correctly, the goal is to create
the same thing as yast, linuxconf and webmin, but do it better. 

Regards, Andreas