On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:59:02 +0530 Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
You are very correct, master documents should always be plain text. The generated documents can be binary however. Also, there should be a fallback system where the plain text documents are used rather than binary documents so that the faults in generator do not affect the bootability of the system.
What's the point. To me that's just adding an extra redundant layer that could have bugs. I see no point using binaries for configuration whatosever. RAM is crazy fast and some SSDs are now as fast as a PIIIs ram. How many nanoseconds does it take to parse config files???
and don't forget to mention some stupid binary configuration system, like gconf, that incapable of removing erroneous entries created by a typo.