Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
The same woth PO. PO doesn't deal with config file generation but that (as I mention in my review) is completely unnessesary anyway. Why and how frequently would I want to generate my config files programmatically?
Every program that allows configuration via a GUI or even an in-program CLI will want to persist the configuration changes. Examples? Take any program at all that is not meant to run once, do a job, and exit (as compilers do), but instead runs for some time. Any web browser, email client, word processor, whatever. They all allow configuration at runtime and thus need to persist the configuration into permanent storage. Rare exceptions here are servers: Apache, Xorg Server (though that's not a virtue for the XServer). And even the X server has many tools that generate configuration. Even the Linux kernel has programs that generate config files! Sebastian Redl