On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Leszek Matok wrote:
Dnia 27-03-2006, pon o godzinie 13:08 -0800, Shane Stixrud napisaÿÿ(a):
No matter what you come up with though, it will be many years before you see wide spread adoption. If anything, you might consider a project to create a system-wide config editor that knows all the different formats etc and provides a consistent CLI/GUI interface.
Projects already exist http://www.libelektra.org/Main_Page for example.
No, this concentrates on creating a single API for many programs to store their configs. Parent meant something understanding currently existent configuration formats. Something like that exists, too: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
The above project has the concept of "backends" that can be made to understand specific configuration formats. There is an example where Xorg.conf can be imported and exported on demand.