[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

[Chris Withers]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> XML as config format must die :-) ZConfig has the right balance between
> a stupid INI format and XML.

+sys.maxint

> The weak point at this discussion (as I mentioned earlier) is that we 
> are discussion about a format and not about a flexible configuration 
> framework
> that solves the problems at ZConfig has. The format used at the end to 
> feed the framework with data is pure syntactical sugar.

I don't think ZConfig does too bad a job in this area either ;-)

> The idea to use schemas makes sense especially because schemas seem to 
> provide everything you need right now. The only thing I have no clue 
> about is how one would define hierachies through schemas (possibly 
> through nested schemas)?

I dunno that schemas are such a good fit here, but maybe that just 
demonstrates my lack of knowledge about them...

cheers,

Chris

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