Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

[Philip Ashmore <contact@philipashmore.com>]

On 14/11/12 16:52, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2012 12:26:56 Philip Ashmore wrote:
> > The packaging tools used by Debian and others have a steep learning
> > curve because their representation isn't human-friendly - it's all for
> > the convenience of a build system dating back to UNIX.
> >
> > I'm talking about a graphical interface that generates these files so
> > that developers never have to look at them.
>
> Hmm, that sounds like 'cme edit dpkg' (provided by libconfig-model-dpkg-perl).
> For more details, see [1].
>
> HTH
>
> [1] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Using-config-model#wiki-Debian_packaging
Except that the system I'm working on could also implement the GIT api, 
the APT package database, and be controlled by a text user interface 
(TUI) as well as the command line or a GUI.

Come to think of it, Debian does have a portal to all things Debian - 
the world wide web.

Regards,
Philip