RE: Gnome/Linux Application Installer

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

Do you think it would be possible to get a group of people together and
rewrite libPropList to abstract config saving entirely. I have been playing
with directories, LDAP and NDS, and for large amounts of computers,
directories solve many configuring problems flat files have. But being the
Unix user I still like flat files. This poses an interesting problem. I
would like to use LDAP on large networks of Unix's and Flat files for single
stand alone boxes. If libPropList would be written like PAM, modules could
be used to save config data, one for files, one for LDAP. Novell might even
write a NDS one considering they are doing NDS for Linux any way. Maybe
because Microsoft Active directory is LDAP based, we could even save our
settings in there. (who would want to do that would be an entirely different
story.) I think since RedHat is going Enterprise and this is an Enterprise
feature, maybe they could have the RHAD Lab people work on it. Saving
settings like this would be easy for a programmer because they don't even
have to write file reading code. Less code would be required in the long run
and programs would be better configurable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Jeske [SMTP:jeske@home.chat.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 23, 1998 2:29 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Cc:	'Mark Galassi'
> Subject:	Re: Gnome/Linux Application Installer
> 
> There is a library to store config data. It's called
> 'libPropList'. However, they errored (IMO) and made opening config
> data require an absolute pathname to a file. Instead they should have
> asked for you to hand in an identifier to the app you are storing
> config data for, and the library should have decided on the install
> location.
> 
> However, this could be changed pretty easily. The harder part is
> convincing more people that they actually 'win' by not dictating the
> physical location of the config file. 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 12:55:52PM -0800, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > Is there a library that can be used to save config data? Maby even
> posibly
> > abstract it in such a way that there could be different modules to save
> the
> > data in different ways? Maby one for flat files, one for LDAP, etc. Maby
> > using a library like this, the program could get info on its dat file
> > locations...
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Mark Galassi [SMTP:rosalia@cygnus.com]
> > > Sent:	Wednesday, December 23, 1998 12:52 PM
> > > To:	David Jeske
> > > Subject:	Re: Gnome/Linux Application Installer
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     David> The reason all RPMs don't allow themselves to be relocated,
> > >     David> is that there is no standardized way for the app to figure
> > >     David> out where it's datafiles are located.
> > > 
> > > There's a proposal in gnu-prog-discuss right now about using an
> > > environment variable for that stuff.
> -- 
> David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + jeske@chat.net