Re: [Config4gnu-developer] My WBEM obsession

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> Lately I've been spending a large proportion of my free coding time working
> on WBEM and configuration. I felt it was necessary to share what I've been
> working on to find out if anyone else finds it as interesting as I do :).

Thank you for your info. 
I don't know much about WBEM, but here are my general thoughts:

WBEM seems an interesting approach, however commercial and not community driven.
WBEM seems to be just another way for config representation and modification,
it has also a XML representation spec.
Currently CFG uses an own XML format for that that can include help texts,
comments, forms, wizards. In the future more maybe added, for example icons etc.

CFG will need to use one format natively that can accomplish all
requirements for CFG goals. 

In order to provide other formats "interface frontends" can do
the translation between CFGs format and others like LDAP, WBEM etc.

In order to access and modify other formats CFG would need a backend (parser)
for that. With them configurations in LDAP, WBEM or others can be browsed
and modified though CFG.


OK, now to CFGs native format. I think it needs to be a free standard.
(No threat of patent bombs, possibility to get something upstream etc.)
If the current handling of XML data is seen as not so nice D-BUS
http://freedesktop.org/Software/dbus can be a nice common way to pass
parts of the XML representation back and forth. (see tutorial)

Of course there could be some standardization between projects. Projects
with similar XML formats include KDSs .cfg files and ROXs options.xml
GST also?