From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 06:44:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA04309 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 06:44:14 -0700 Received: from healer.com (healer-gw.Empire.Net [205.164.80.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04301 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 06:44:05 -0700 Received: (from gryphon@localhost) by healer.com (8.6.11/8.6.9.1) id JAA16953; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:45:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:45:24 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon Message-Id: <199509261345.JAA16953@healer.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) > > > The only system I've seen that has worked with autoedited files... and > > > this will really make you cringe... is Microsoft Windows. Their config > +> Actually, the samba config files have the exact same format as the > +> MS-Windows config files. It is a well-known and simple format. > Since Samba is designed to interface with Microsoft Windows, that's not > surprising. Whatever. I haven't asked Andrew why he chose that format, so I can't comment on his motives. But why is irrelevent, it is a useful format. > I really hate the conceptual integrity problems in the INI files. ... > But because of them discovering after the fact that they needed to sequence > events, it may or may not be. This violates the principle of least surprise. You hate MS's implementation? or the concept of NAME=VALUE in general? -coranth ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 3 Hansom Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...