Elektra's technical suitablity

[Shane Stixrud]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Joe Desbonnet wrote:

> As far as I can tell Elektra does not support configuration schemas.

If I am not mistaken Elektra currently treats all plain text key values as 
strings. I think this is a feature and not a limitation.  Elektra is 
friendly towards existing application configuration schemes. If it 
enforced key types (Integers, floats, strings etc...) things get a lot more 
complicated and it is not clear this is the right place to enforce it.

Perhaps enforcing the input types at a configuration builder 
API makes more sense, keeping libelektra free of the added complexity?

Cheers,
Shane

>
> On 4/2/06, Shane Stixrud <shane at geeklords.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Avi Alkalay wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.libelektra.org/Gnome_and_KDE_Integration
>>>
>>
>> This thread has gotten off track IMO.  Does anyone care to critique
>> Elektra from a technical stand point on its suitability as a Fedora
>> configuration engine?
>>
>> So far the technical critiques have been based on invalid assumptions.