why use special config formats?

[Fuzzyman]

tomerfiliba at gmail.com wrote:
> if you are really so scared of letting others exploit your config
> scripts, then use the second, pickled fashion. that way you can store
> the file at $HOME/blah-config.pkl, and everybody's happy.
>
> still, my point is we dont need special config mechanisms, since the
> builtin ones, like object persistency (sp) or python scripts are good
> enough, less buggy, and dont require you to learn thousands of config
> formats.
>

Well... ConfigObj uses the same format as ConfigParser, which the basic
ini style.

The message is that config files are for users, and so should be in a
format convenient for them - not for the machine.

Call your users cry-babies if yu want, you won't have many...

> and you can even edit pickled files by hand (protocol 0 i believe).
> it's not that complicated.
>

If you're happy with a hardwired config file, you don't need a config
file at all.

Fuzzyman
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> 
> -tomer