Re: TextSQL?

[Mark Burgess]

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?
> 
>       :)
>