Re: Editfiles Considered Harmful

[Rick]

I have written a preprocessor (think "cpp") in perl which understands lines like 
"#ifdef cf_classname" where the "classname" definitions come from cfengine via 
CFALLCLASSES.

Prototype files for various configuration files are maintained by cfengine, and 
when one of them (or the cf.classes file) changes, cfengine runs the 
preprocessor to generate the actual configuration file for the host.

This results in a more rigorously convergent output.

-Rick