[gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development

[Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | but I think having the xml configuration files allows a much more
> | robust configuration.
> 
> How so? Using XML doesn't magically make your data files any different.
> It simply makes them much harder to parse.

That's a matter of opinion.  I see it as a way to abstract away the
configuration and utilize an existing library to handle the parsing.  If
we do want to eliminate outside dependencies (which I think is an
extremely valid point and concern), then we could internally implement a
different configuration format that is easier to parse.  I'd probably go
for something similar to the samba/gdm config files if we were to go
down this road:

selection.conf:
[global]
default_chost = i686-pc-linux-gnu

[i686-pc-linux-gnu]
version=i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4
profile=vanilla

i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4.conf:
[global]
version=i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4
bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.4
manpath=blah
infopath=blah

[vanilla]
ldpath=blah
spec=blah

[hardened]
...

So what do people think of these two options?

--Jeremy

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