[Pkg-mono-devel] What mono-hostmanager is

[Eduard Bloch]

#include <hallo.h>
* Pablo Fischer [Sun, Feb 22 2004, 03:15:31PM]:

> I also talked with Gonzalo (the main developer of xps and
> mod-mono-server) and he told me that it (the idea and script) will be
> available in the future, and the file will be mod-mono-server.conf
> (google can give and idea of the file), but today we need to write ALL
> the hosts in the command line.

Hm, Google:Your search - mod-mono-server.conf - did not match any documents. 

> That is the reason of why I wrote mono-hostmanager. 
> 
> Before the 'new concept' of mono-hostmanger I was working with a stupid
> file in bash, that takes values from a virtual.conf in the format:

This stupid file can be created from a bunch of snippets on the fly.

> I also wrote it cause I don't need that there will be just one host
> package (asp.net-examples) in all the live of the Debian Mono Packages,
> if somebody thinks it... no comments.

And I still think that it is bloat. A simple config-building script like
that used by exim4-config would solve the problem without adding a new
package. It could be simply:

/etc/mono-mono-server.d/FILENAME with files like 10_asp.net-examples,
20_monodoc-http_root, etc., then a "cat * > /etc/mono-mono-server.conf"
merges all them to a config file which is read by the init script.

Pro:
 - no overhead, no extra tools needed
 - no normal-human-readable formats (XML is IMO crap for editable config files)

Contra:
 - ??
 
Regards,
Eduard.
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