[IntelMQ-dev] config format (Is: IEP01: IntelMQ Configuration Handling)

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

> On 15.12.2020, at 17:52, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
> 
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> Hi Filip,
> 
> thanks for sharing your viewpoint!
> 
> Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2020 17:12:41 schrieb Filip Pokorny:
>> I believe people using IntelMQ Manager for wiring the graph don't really
>> need to care what kind of configuration format is used.
> 
> To clarify:
> The problem I see with some configuration formats are the out-of-band comments
> that would not be visible in IntelMQ Manager, so the Manager would be a second
> class. And if there is meaning in the comments, they cannot be semantically
> diffed.
> 

Ah! Yeah, that makes sense.
I guess the whole discussion is a actually a discussion of usability
from two different view points: command line config file editing versus
intelmq-manager.

If some form of YAML were used, would the manager be able to pull in the (there it is
structured / syntactically well defined) comments from there and display them?


> The out-of-band comments can be part of important use cases (like saving
> different configurations in Mercurial SCM or so). In order to suggest
> something I'd personally would need to explore and understand these use cases
> in more detail.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
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