Central configuration management system

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 07/12/2013 09:28 AM, Farago Janos wrote:
> I saw examples for configuration backends in the source code under
> shell/source/backends, but they have limitations. How is it possible to
> write a configuration backend, that is transparent, i.e. all queries are
> forwarded to it, not only those that have the oor:external attribute?

That's not possible with the current implementation.  You would need to 
directly modify the code in module configmgr to make that work.  (Like 
adding support for a new kind of configuration layer and hooking that 
into CONFIGURATION_LAYERS in the Components ctor in 
configmgr/source/components.cxx.  But note that the current design is 
built around the decision to read in /all/ configuration data at 
application start, which might be at odds with using data backends other 
than the current .xcd files.)

Stephan