On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, John W Baxter wrote:
> At 9:44 +0100 3/26/01, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >What I am implementing is "begin" lines without "end" lines. Then you
> >don't have to have any code for giving an error if there's junk between
> >"end" and "begin", and you don't have to have code for merging.
>
> Sorry, this is very late (I'm catching up from a period of no-time-for-lists).
>
> I like the way this turned out...the potential Exim 4 config file format
> makes sense to me.
>
> I would point out that the advocates of an XML-based file can certainly
> have it...it "just" needs to be validated and translated to the working
> Exim configuration file format. XML and its surrounding tools are quite
> good at that sort of process. The XML advocates can do it (I might become
> one)...Philip doesn't have to.
>
> [And the working file can--at least optionally--be condensed some, by lack
> of a need for comments, if the comments are in the XML...which should
> improve performance slightly.]
For those of us that prefer to write the working file directly, it
certainly should continue to support comments as well.
>
> And no, this doesn't mean I think the sendmail.cf file and its creation by
> m4 from incomprehensible source is a good idea.
>
> --John
>
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