guix-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Service refactoring


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Service refactoring
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 14:50:31 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> So, nginx and apache have pretty drastically different config file
> types.  However, most of the things users want I think are compatible
> with both.  We probably want a "minimal" service that just accepts
> whatever config files for apache and nginx, and just lets the user
> specify that whole manually.  We can have more advanced procedures for
> building up a config file by translating our world-of-s-expressions or
> whatever schemey types into the config file format... but given "just
> how much" you can do with nginx and apache that is just so wildly
> different between the two, we probably want something that provides an
> abastract representation of what most web applications need, some sort
> of "medium common denominator" (I don't think we need to shoot for
> lowest here!).  That way we can have a general way of letting
> applications specify what they need from their web server, but also
> allow a sysadmin to go "full on manual" if they need to with the config
> file formats.
>
> Dave / Ludo: Does that fit with what you two are thinking as well?

Yes, sounds good.  We just need to figure out what that common
denominator is.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]