SystemConfig/framework

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Framework for system-config

Some thoughts about extending the system-config framework for the future.

Backend

• Framework for Reader/Writer plugins for every config file, touched by the system-config tools
• Reader/Writer plugin to export in custom format (to dump the whole system-configuration)
• see http://wiki.python.org/moin/LanguageParsing for possible parser generators (problem: no writing)
• Existing Config Backends:
• Configuration 4 GNU (CFG) http://config4gnu.sourceforge.net/ (dead since 2004)
• Elektra http://elektra.g4ii.com/Main_Page (last release 09/07/06)
• !ProjectUnity http://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ProjectUnity based on !UniConf http://open.nit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=UniConf
• D-Conf http://freax.be/wiki/index.php/Temporary_location_for_D-Conf_specs (nice overview over existing systems)
• Freedesktop.org Spec http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/config-spec
• SBLIM (IBM) http://sblim.sourceforge.net/index.html (active, CIM monitoring & management)
• DMTF CIM http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/

Logical Data Layer

• Consistency and logical checks provided to all parameters

GUI-Frontend

• Basic widgets for GUI, TUI and maybe HTTP
• Combination of small sets of widgets to use as plugins for bigger apps
• possible libraries:
• pygtk/glade
• Urwid http://excess.org/urwid/

Author

• Harald Hoyer