9 Feb 2004 14:34
alternative roadmap proposal
Hello, I understand that since I was not so conviced about the proposed changes I need to try to show an alternative. So here I'll try. In my eyes CFG is a important joining piece that is needet to bring unix systems and higher level interfaces (GUIs protocolls etc.) together in a consistent way. So one point is to make it scale easily and modular from small to large and not include too much too fast. I like the schematic given at http://config4gnu.sourceforge.net/docs/schematic.html Maybe just the authentication, remote administration, and backup/restore needs to be moved one layer up to avoid unnecessary difficulties. The middlelayer provides a common representation in XML with addiional features and logic. This is CFGs main thing, providing a good and unified abstraction of the configuration. Everything else gets much easier when build on that. It's ok to hand XML back an forth as long as it is going to be used localy, it is just analogous to opening the config files directly. Alternative interfaces can be build on that CFG representation and constitute new parts of the "CFG top layer" WBEM and LDAP seem to be of particular interest here. On the other hand a CFG bottom layer LDAP parser would also be very interesting for systems that have part of their config stored in LDAP directories.(Continue reading)
RSS Feed