ircd.conf considerations

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

because the current configuration file format is getting
quite unreadable, complicated and showing signs of
saturations, there is an ongoing effort to redesign the
ircd configuration file.

by solving some problems and making it easier to extend
what we currently know as configuration lines; we will
eventually run in the problem that it's not possible to
send part of the configuration file via irc (what we
currently know as /stats i, /stats c ...)

1- how important is it for you to be able to query the
daemon configuration while online?

2- is it indispensable to be able to query _everything_?
(for instance, we could imagine that some options/details
may be left out, such as "compression level of a CN pair"
[this option currently doesn't exist, gzip -1 or gzip -9])

I want to point out that everything isn't currently
queriable: R lines use an external program which may be
anything, some of the M line field are never shown.(..?)

If you simply answer yes or no with little to say, reply
privately, I'll tally the results.