Re: [Config4gnu-developer] Fw: Re: CFG config management (/etc etc.)

[Damien U. <car...@op...>]

Hrmm, they seem very GNOME-centric. They claim to want a cross-desktop 
solution, but I think they're just giving that idea lip service without any 
ambition to follow through. They also don't address the problem of 
simplifying the /etc tree even for the user using vi to change their 
configuration. Providing a fast, small, library that applications can include 
to resolve the path to their config files is a good step to improving the 
/etc file tree because then distributors can clean it up without breaking 
apps or having to hack the code to those apps.

The problem with CFG is that it wants to change every program that sticks a 
file in the /etc directory. But IMO, this is a good thing, and I believe all 
the Unix/GNU tools need to move towards a more structured, more logical 
configuration system and have less reliance on hard coding paths at 
compile-time (this goes for hard coding locations of data directories as 
well!).

CFG also has the right idea in trying to get developers to include CFG XML 
files in their program distribution so that, on installation, it is instantly 
supported by the GUI tools, even though the GUI tools haven't been 
specifically programmed for it. It seems that with GST, they have to 
explicitly add support for everything at the frontend and the backend.

Unfortunately, it appears GST has the backing of Ximian and the GNOME project, 
and so has more chance of taking off than CFG. Perhaps we could pitch CFG to 
the Mandrake guys and the KDE project (I would suggest SuSE because they're a 
KDE distribution, but now Novell owns them and Ximian).

Just my thoughts.

Damien

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 10:26 am, p.c...@ar... wrote:
> Hello,
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> GST really seems to have a lot in common with CFG.
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> To me it seems so far that GST comes more from a desktop point of
> view/need, whereas CFG seems to be a more general system wide solution.
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> They might even be combinable.
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> GST has a CORBA interface!
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> Could you as CFG developers please have a look, and maybe make some more
> competent notes. Maybe CC to xdg-list of freedesktop.org or even to
> setup-tool-hackers of GST.
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> Whitepaper:
> http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/helix-setup-tools.html
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> Slideshow from GU4DEC 2003:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/stuff/gst-gu4dec-2003/index.html
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> -Peter
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