Re: [freesci-develop] Requesting feedback: Early thoughts on a configuration subsystem

[Matt]

Hi Chris

> > However below you mentioned a possibility for some kind of code
> > generator, that would work too, it would just mean copying some same
> > kind of work between the different front-ends.
>
> Motivation for the code generator would be primarily to ease
> maintenance. Frontends would then plug into information provided
> dynamically OR provide a specific part of the code generator that
> emits appropriate code statically.
I was thinking about a simple command line tool that would digest and 
return settings to and from the config file (could be anything though, 
the config file could change format, it would be transparent for the 
launcher). However after some thought I don't think that would be a 
good solution as it could mean running into the maximum size of a 
commandline (if there would be many settings).
I slowly think it would be the best just to supply a common general 
read/write c file (you hinted already at config.c one time) and have 
the launchers just use this file to read and write the settings.

Matt

On Apr 9, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>   one of the current weaknesses of FreeSCI-- particularly Glutton-- is
> the lack of unified configuration handling. While I'm fairly
> comfortable with the treatment of configuration files at the moment
> (config.l), the following things are lacking:
>
> - Systematic integration of command-line arguments with configuration
>   file options
> - Dynamic configuration updates (as required for reasonable builtin
>   frontend support)
> - Support for a default system configuration file
>
> Beyond this, Gluton's configuration support is fairly incomplete ATM,
> but that's something we can pick up along the way there. Now, there
> has been some work on front-ends, so I'm wondering: What are the
> requirements these systems have? Would it be feasible to generate the
> information needed by these systems statically, throught a simple
> code-generator?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>
> -- Christoph
>
>
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