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Re: TextSQL?
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Mark Burgess |
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Re: TextSQL? |
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Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:46:39 +0200 |
I think it is possible to generalize the interfaces so that both things
are possible. "Horses for courses" as they say (apparently).
M
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:14 +1000, Tim Nelson wrote:
> Mark, I've had an idea for the "editfiles" thing. What would you
> think of an editfiles that works like SQL for text files? There'd be more
> actions than just INSERT, UPDATE, and SELECT, so I'd suggest putting the
> actions last, but you could do (on /etc/xinetd.d/amanda):
>
> -------------------------------------
> WHERE
> CurrentBlock = "service amanda"
> AND Field(0) = "disable"
> DO
> Field(1) = yes
> -------------------------------------
>
> I'd envisage this being a separate language to cfengine, but also
> having a way to embed it in the cfengine code as suggested by the "Action
> Templating" section of Templating ideas:
> http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Templating_Ideas
> The above would also mean that editfiles and cfengine could develop
> independently, using one job per tool, as per the Unix philosophy.
>
> The above would be pretty convergent, I'd hope. Obviously not
> until cfengine 3.0, though :). Yes, there are problems with the above
> approach, but I think it would help us to think convergently about things.
>
> What do you think?
>
> :)
>
- TextSQL?, Tim Nelson, 2005/04/27
- Re: TextSQL?, Jamie Wilkinson, 2005/04/27
- Re: TextSQL?,
Mark Burgess <=