On 3/28/06, sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
But what is the advantage of building an entire new config language
around these wrappers?  Couldn't they be manipulated just as easily
with shell or python?    Can the administrator make simple ad-hoc
command line config file changes?

Experience shows that is more difficult and less effective to write a lot of different configuration parsers, then patching the original softwares to make them read configuration atoms from other sources and formats.

Avi