[DotGNU]SEE configuration poll

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The SEE is started at boot, and also by each user.

Each user can provide webservices by registering them in his/her own 
config file.

Each user (and the system) can specify different plugins available using 
the same config file.

The way I see it, there are two KISS options for this system:

1. Use a guile-based config file, with a macro file for M4 output by 
users of the xseeconfig.exe graphical configuration tool. This is much 
like how Mozilla is configured (except for the m4 part); the config file 
is executed, and it makes callbacks that fill in the necessary data of 
the mega-config "Prefs" object.

It has the advantages of allowing ultra-dynamic configuration. It has 
the drawbacks of parsing M4 for xseeconfig.exe, as well as relying 
somewhat on programming-language error reporting instead of data error 
reporting.

2. Use XML as a backing store for the configuration information. This 
has the benefit of allowing easy access by xseeconfig.exe and validation 
(better error reporting). It has the drawback of limiting users more.

Everyone, please tell me what you think.

--
Stephen Compall
DotGNU `Contributor' -- http://dotgnu.org

Back the everybody was arguing about God being dead or alive. "Impeach
God" approached the subject of God from a completely different
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nothing to correct the problems in it, why would we ever want to
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