[Devel] Re: [Users] OpenVZ tools

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
>> Although I do not see any problem with "shell-oriented" config files. They are
>> easy to edit and can be easily read from any code (be it C or Perl or Python
>> or whatever). So, can you be more specific and tell us why you don't like such
>> configs?
>>     
>
> I understand that switching would be hard. But a better syntax would allow 
> more interesting things. I like python's configuration format and syntax, 
>   
What is python's configuration format? Something like yum.conf? I.e. 
almost-shell-style with sections denoted by [sectname]?
Or something else?
> but anything better would do.
>
> The shell-variable way of doing things is limited and prone to errors. 
> Plus I generally do not prefer the lowest common denominator as a standard 
I'm a bit scared by language-specific config formats. Seen a number of 
cases when people use perl hashes in a config and just source those.