[hobbit] xml configs

[David Pullman]

Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> I vote against this.  I LIKE easily understood text files, since I
> configure Hobbit with a text editor.  If there were to be an
> configuration GUI some day that took over all Hobbit configuration
> tasks, then I would cease to care how the files are stored.
> 
> GLH
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:08 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] xml configs
> 
> Hey Henrik,
> 
> I know this would be a rather significant change but have you considered
> switching hobbit to use xml based config files?  I'm actually working on
> an external module that will use an xml config file and thinking about
> the schema, etc it occurred to me that hobbit would lend itself nicely
> to xml configs.
> 
> Just curious...
> 
> =G=
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We use scripts to build config files, especially bb-hosts and all of 
it's included files.  I'd need a bunch of cycles to move that to xml, if 
only because I haven't (yet) done a lot with xml in scripting.

A gui would not help me at all.  We automate everything we can with perl.

--David