Configuration API

[Sean Middleditch]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:10, Avi Alkalay wrote:
> I agree something must be defined.
> 
> Do you guys think it is important for this API to be desktop-apps-only wide,
> or also systemwide?
> Like, should XFree, Apache configuration be accessible through this API too?

If they want to be.  It's up to them.  You can't shove configuration
systems/APIs down peoples' throats.  The X11 server (XFree86 or
otherwise) is something that should be configurable on the fly IMO given
that it *is* a desktop component, though.  ;-)

Do server projects impose any additional needs on a configuration API? 

An administrator running a server farm might *love* to have Apache for
example share its settings with other servers on the network and all
support change notification to provide for simplified central
administration.  (Admin opens tool on his desktop, changes a setting
that gets distributed across the network using a cluster-oriented
backend, apache processes pick up the change and adjust accordingly.)

They would perhaps require atomicity for change sets (you don't want to
open temporary an access/security hole because some changes that should
have been made all at once are picked up and immediately handled one by
one).

> 
> Regards,
> Avi

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Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.