Comments on: Configuration Files http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/03/24/configuration-files/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:39:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: peterv http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/03/24/configuration-files/#comment-115 peterv Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:40:19 +0000 http://www.murphybytes.com/?p=120#comment-115 i mentioned to you many times, use of an embedded interpreted language will do miracle in configuration and it is also way smarter than xml. this allows you to have variables that are dependent on somehting that can be programmed for, like ip address of an interface, grab stuff from a database. all the sudden configuration of distributed applications can be done programmatically. Next read about HTML::Mason a perl package that can generate documets for you, like stupid config files. Even use Ruby on Rails, to generate config files instead of html pages. Hey, hey, hey time to play. :-) i mentioned to you many times, use of an embedded interpreted language will do miracle in configuration and it is also way smarter than xml.
this allows you to have variables that are dependent on somehting that can be programmed for, like ip address of an interface, grab stuff from a database. all the sudden configuration of distributed applications can be done programmatically. Next read about HTML::Mason a perl package that can generate documets for you, like stupid config files. Even use Ruby on Rails, to generate config files instead of html pages. Hey, hey, hey time to play. :-)

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