System Configuration

[JD Runyan]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JD Runyan 
>> [snip]
>> This would be a massive project.  I would approach it by 
>> creating an api 
>> to handle config files, then I would pick an app, and figure 
>> out how to 
>> patch it to access the new api.  The api should parse the 
>> files, preferably
>> using a mini-python parser, and then "publish" them with a 
>> standard interface 
>> for the calling application to use.  You would then just need 
>> to edit the code
>> in the applications to call your library, and request the 
>> values it needs.  The
>> functions would be the essentially the same, except when they 
>> go to look at the
>> file it would call the library instead.  It sounds simpler 
>> than it is in practice.
>> The chief benefit I would see to using a scripting language 
>> for configs, is 
>> the ability to use control statements to essentially create a 
>> dynamic config
>> to use on multiple varied hosts.
>> 
>> You could also achieve a similar result writing the api, and 
>> then running a 
>> script at startup that writes out the config files in the 
>> vendors format.  All
>> you would have to do is write the config script, and then run 
>> it to output the 
>> new configuration
>Easy for you to say! This is my first real python project. 
>All I've done so far are samples from the book.
>
>:'o
>
>Yes, modularizing is the approach to take. 
>
>Brian
>
Easy to say, but certainly not an easy task
-- 
JD Runyan
		"You can't milk a point."
			David M. Kuehn, Ph.D.