[Opensim-users] opensim config files

[Serendipity Seraph]

Perhaps but I don't think entering my domain name five or six times when enabling HG is a good example.  :P

What is simple should be simple and more complex things should be possible, right?  The common cases should be easy.  If the facility existed to refer to the equivalent of a variable in settings values then it could be plugged in by default and special cases could be handled by changing that common usage default to be common where needed.  I don't see how it is an either-or.

- seren


On May 13, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Melanie wrote:

> There are valid cases where different services should use different
> modules, paths or addresses for the same thing. Combining those
> settings would block and disable a number of valid applications and
> make running a very large grid rather difficult. The configuration
> complexity allows unusual, experimental or special configurations
> that are needed in a number of cases. The ability to do this is by
> design and the more complicated configuration in the simple cases
> has been accepted as the price we pay to enable the more complex cases.
> 
> Melanie
> 
> On 14/05/2012 00:17, Serendipity Seraph wrote:
>> As opposed to what?  Well, to anything that doesn't require repeating the same value multiple times.  I don't know what that is but there has to be some such thing.    This form of config is cross platform and all if you have a parser for it (ConfigParser in python for instance) but it is being used to configure a C# application.   You could do it with the config layout as is  if that which parsed it used a standard way of referring to some other config variable value.  I can write something to automate this stuff for myself but I  wanted to know if there is anything afoot in this direction already.
>> 
>> - seren
>> 
>> On May 13, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Melanie wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 13/05/2012 10:36, Serendipity Seraph wrote:
>>>> Is there some way to get closer to obeying the DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle in the config files?  I see the same information (e.g. internet address) repeated over and over again.  This is a real pain when you need to change something and it is not at all obvious whether some of the repeats mean something different and should not be changed.    I guess it is a property of the old-school config file format.  But whatever, it makes configuration and especially changes to same messy and error-prone.  Any good way to help it?
>>> 
>>> Old school, as opposed to what?
>>> 
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