[Mailman-Developers] Re: Config.db

On 2000.06.30, in <395CE58E.D4512B7B@west.sun.com>, "Dan Mick" <Dan.Mick@west.sun.com> wrote:

Perhaps a portable method would be something like "dumpdb", perhaps modified slightly to be a little more parsing-friendly? (if readonly access is all that's required..)

I would appreciate being able to load an edited dump, too. To me, this nonportability -- and thus the mere fact of using the Marshal module -- is very disturbing. That's considerably mitigated if there are tools for conversion in both directions, though.

-- -D. dgc@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago