Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add dovecot service

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 16 Dec 2015 23:14, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 08:04:19AM +0000, Andy Wingo wrote:
>> On Tue 15 Dec 2015 22:58, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> > Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
>> >
>> >> * gnu/services/mail.scm: New file.
>> >
>> > Regarding the Schemefied configuration, do you think Dovecot’s
>> > configuration model is stable enough that this won’t have to change
>> > much?  Is a “cheat mode” (where one can pass raw strings to paste into
>> > the configuration file) needed?
>> 
>> Finally, I'm not adverse to a .conf file escape hatch.  It's especially
>> convincing in a context where other services do the same -- we should
>> have a greater degree of uniformity across services.  However if other
>> services implemented a 100%-solution Scheme configuration interface, I
>> wonder if we would still want the .conf file interface.  Dunno!
>
> For 3rd party software, I think we should make it possible for users to
> use upstream's configuration language, preferably as a text block inside
> of the service configuration block.

Point well taken, thanks for the input.  I'll add the ability to
specify the configuration as a string, as you suggest.

Andy