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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> What about at least using a standard extension like .properties?
>

I think .conf is pretty standard within the unix/linux world
(postgresql.conf, users.conf, hosts.conf, etc) and it indicates that is a
configuration file, so my preference is .conf.



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> Morten
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
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>> I agree that structure is nice. However, the intention is to keep this as
>> simple as absolutely possibly. I think the average dhis self-taught sys
>> admin is a bit familiar with good old property files but not so much with
>> yaml or json, and the risk for people ending up with invalid config is
>> high. I can foresee a flurry of dev list emails going like this:
>>
>> - "the system does not start"
>> - "if your config file valid yaml?"
>> - "yaml what?"
>> - "just read up here http://www.yaml.org/start.html";
>> - "no i don't need to invoice basketballs"
>> - "can you post your config file?"
>> - "yes"
>> - "no don't include your password, now you must reset it"
>> - "okay i set it to Pass123 now"
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Lars Helge Øverland
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University of Oslo
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