[JDEV] Standards

[Jerrad Pierce]

>Could you please clarify what you're talking about here? What "configuration
>format" are you referring to? And why do you want a standard (esp. since we
>have clients in a half-dozen langs and platforms)?

>Thanks.

I'm talking about configuration files. Files which specify options en lieu of
the use of switches. I'd recommend a standard to prevent the duplication of
information across several files for each client a given user may use. For
example benig an athena user at MIT I could easily see using 3 clients:
1 for X on Sun and SGI machines, 1 for GNOME on a private linux box, and one
for login sessions. Not to mention if we standardize (or recommend) a config
file format, you could have use some kind of roaming with your config file
(LDAP, or the like). It just seems like a very logical step to me.

Of course my recommends format was leaning a bit more towars perl, so maybe we
should do something XML...
#I've tried to give a few examples of various ways we might use the tags as well

<Config>
	<Default>
		<host>localhost</host>
		<user value=bob/>
	</Default>
	<Special>
		<host>secret</host>
		<user>bob</user>
		<pass>intheclear</pass>
	</Special>
</Config>
<Client>
	<PBnJ>
		<log/>
	</PBnJ>
</Client>