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[Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:20:55 -0800, Edward Hennessy <ehennes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Here are some options:
> 
> - Create a well-known scheme file that contains a subset of the
> configuration settings.
> - Create a conditional variable that allows scheme to know which
> application is parsing it.
> - Use system-gpartsrc to include less-known files from the scheme
> directories.
> 
> Any other implementations? Which is the best going forward?

I wouldn't put a lot of effort into it. During the next development cycle
(i.e. post-1.8.0) I intend to switch gEDA/gaf over to using static,
parseable configuration files. See my
https://github.com/peter-b/geda-gaf/commits/config-sys branch.

Peter

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Peter Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre