From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImPC5-0004rx-Er for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:37:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9T7b0IM009167; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:37:00 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9T7Z7Zf006779 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:35:07 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so942426ugf for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:35:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tVtIf2dMXRISDNJRW4jGNVQLAqES3s31IrrEXqRSomY=; b=my+NImO0/H7SCJArYwjY2ii6ZFJFOdLZALoRJwOPx2lkA+vPg2vTMPkaHPwHw6jySWyfngriMl6y6KQVjBfYC1IrAtqlv5jol10qEzvO2lR7FnCMYgd/DG+XADd6p37EoKTTOluCLJZpHgaJ3Os9h1BPUh7zUE/Cv8WBnPadQnI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=Lx8fXIfdofl67AsXGtKSlsAebx5P/ldK0kZCq5mNkrx3qcg25sCVgiAFjT1LuhpCnLmv2wVhG1rkvUXBLFwP3IdkDdDne4iVH3Dum0vQXOOiXkzDt1He4VLNGx2K22x3X54cR0QLRhz9xXRbHyPcpicuJLo0Dk12jCeEKyv/QjA= Received: by 10.66.237.9 with SMTP id k9mr582160ugh.1193643306674; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.65.211? ( [213.234.126.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm4863502ugb.2007.10.29.00.35.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) From: Natanael Copa To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1193326831.4245.16.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <20071025213113.GJ29642@supernova> <1193348959.2910.9.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20071025225641.GK29642@supernova> <1193380105.2913.1.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <4721BE92.4070200@thefreemanclan.net> <1193395366.4312.14.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <1193418183.3487.3.camel@uberpc.marples.name> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:35:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1193643300.28689.28.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b112b30d-4b16-4cd4-80d8-34d836dfeb1c X-Archives-Hash: 9d50d4663f8cacc52904a78dae4a9578 On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 06:46 +0000, Steve Long wrote: > Failing that, a plaintext config file along the lines discussed in [1] would > be cool. awk could parse it pretty quickly. > > [1] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/b//archives/2007/01/20/T11_58_29/ Something like Debian's /etc/network/interfaces? http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man5/interfaces.5.gz Why re-invent yet another format when there already are many out there, well tested over years. -nc -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list