Re: ircd.conf considerations

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23, Bjørn Borud wrote:
| [Christophe Kalt]
| | 
| | 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 ...)
| 
| uhm, why do you think this would not be possible?  surely the server
| reports "state" and does not read the config and echo it to the user
| with the sensitive parts filtered out?  I see no conflict between a
| sanitized configuration file format and the inability of the server to
| report its current configuration.

if we change for a new format, we might as well do
something good without any constraint, and the new format
may not be as line oriented as it is now.

| I'd like to hear what you had in mind 

This should happen soon, we have a draft.
It's XML based.