RE: Configuration (was Re: Constants (was Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Various Stuff);)

[Wizard <wi...@ne...>]

> I'm thinking that for the Green field sites that perhaps we should have an
> 'NMS COnfigurator' which, whilst it needs to be edited once itself, will
> infact write the configuration of all the other NMS programs ...

I've been writing Perl code since around 1995, and have developed a module
that reads all config info from separate config files (name=value). I have
used this for several years now. It is very similar to Config::IniFiles, but
about 3 times as fast, and makes configuring a script as simple as editing
the config file parameters.
I use 'use lib "./path-to-pm";' to specify the module location and then use
"use Config::DynaConf" to utilize the library. This has worked in every case
to-date.
Here's the Docs for it (it was offered to the Config::IniFiles group) if
anyone's interested:
http://www.neonedge.com/perl_tools/Config/

Grant M.