Re: OT: emacs-style variables (etc) in the headers?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've looked at cfengine and though I like several things it does,
> there are a few things I don't like, so I'm writing my own (just
> like every other programmer). What I've come up with is something
> like rpm spec files where I'm looking for a beginning tag (in this
> case the tag is /^%uconfig file configuration/) and an ending tag
> (/^%done/). Between these tags can fall five other tags: %pre,
> %post, %inst, %doc, %always. The %pre is done before anything else,
> the %post is done after the file is copied, the %always is always
> done, the %doc is for documentation, and the %inst is a custom way
> to copy the file (like /etc/syslog.conf) instead of using the default
> (which copies /etc/syslog.conf :). I have a few other bits of
> syntactic sugar in different places to make it all work.

> I'm nearing the end of testing and will soon roll it to my server
> farm.

> What do you think?

What is the question?


        Stefan "still not reading comp.emacs religiously"