[Mailman-Developers] Re: Config.db

David Champion dgc@uchicago.edu
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:02:53 -0500


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.

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