Re:Announcing Notqmail
by sneak on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:18PM
(#20754071)
> the config system mostly used the name of a directory where lots of software would use a filename (qmail.ini => /var/qmail/conf), the name of a file where other software would use a variable name, and the contents of the file as the value of the variable. This is really, really easy to read and write without writing a parsing library.
this djb-ism has seriously affected a lot of the ways i unix, to date. envdir is such a great idea.
Re:Announcing Notqmail
by nailer on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:17AM
(#20758013)
djb needs his own distro. He's written his own init, has thoughts about package management, config management, etc. He probably doesn't need his own kernel but a BSD or Linux kernel with DJB controlling userland would be interesting.
this djb-ism has seriously affected a lot of the ways i unix, to date. envdir is such a great idea.