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

[Filip Pokorny]

Hi Bernard,

thanks for your clarification.

I believe I understand the problem you present, but I still think the
benefits outweigh it. After all this is still an overall improvement, it
makes text editing easier and allows for comments (when text editing).
It doesn't improve GUI approach via Manager, but it doesn't break it or
remove functionality either. This whole proposed change is aimed at
making the manual text editing easier. And as long as changing the
configuration (containing comments) using IntelMQ Manager preserve the
comments (which should be possible) I do not see any downsides to this.
Out-of-band comments would remain intact for those important use-cases.
I do agree that Manager would be second class because it couldn't see
the comments, but frankly this is never going to be fair fight (cli vs
gui), both have their pros and cons. And the only "con" this change
introduces for Manager is that text editing gets more new "pros". Which
doesn't seem like a deal breaker to me.

Best Regards,
Filip

On 12/15/20 5:52 PM, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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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