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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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.

Yeah, I think that having a “cheat code” that allows one to provide
strings to be pasted into the configuration file can be useful.

Ludo’.