Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-20 12:02:57

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

>The same woth PO. PO doesn't deal with config file generation but that (as I 
>mention in my review) is completely unnessesary anyway. Why and how 
>frequently would I want to generate my config files programmatically?
>  
>
Every program that allows configuration via a GUI or even an in-program 
CLI will want to persist the configuration changes. Examples? Take any 
program at all that is not meant to run once, do a job, and exit (as 
compilers do), but instead runs for some time. Any web browser, email 
client, word processor, whatever. They all allow configuration at 
runtime and thus need to persist the configuration into permanent 
storage. Rare exceptions here are servers: Apache, Xorg Server (though 
that's not a virtue for the XServer). And even the X server has many 
tools that generate configuration. Even the Linux kernel has programs 
that generate config files!

Sebastian Redl