sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

Julien BLACHE jb@jblache.org
Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:25:00 +0100


Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de> wrote:

>> I think it is constructive to say that some of the existing config
>> files are of no use today, and could be removed without any problem.
>
> Of course!
> I fully agree to get rid of stuff which is in fact not needed.
>
> Nevertheless:
> For the remaining backends which still need config files
> it would be good to have a common config file syntax which
> supports to change them in a safe way by software tools.

Sure, but let's keep something that's human-readable :) (XML or PPD
aren't human-readable ;)

JB.

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