configuration system notes

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:26 +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thursday 07 April 2005 16:18, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Existing systems are not right:
> >
> >  - Uniconf solves a different problem (gluing together other systems)
> >    while punting on important aspects of what we should be doing here.
> >    "Make it configurable" is not a good answer to most programming
> >    questions (not even the question "how should the config system work")
> 
> It seems useful to me if it can help with providing a smooth upgrade path, 
> maybe Uniconf as backend for D-Conf?

Yep, entirely possible.

Havoc