Hi,

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Zeno Tajoli <z.tajoli@cineca.it> wrote:

I have to define a configuration file for Koha.
Which perl module do we want to prefer for config files ?
YAML (like system prefences) or XML::Simple (like koha-conf.xml) ?

Well, the choice seems to be YAML vs. XML as file formats -- there are much better XML parsers than XML::Simple available. JSON would be an option as well, though not the most friendly. Ditto for Perl-as-config-file-format. One downside of YAML is that it can be a bit too sensitive to mistakes in whitespace.

The nit about XML processors aside, how complicated is the structure of the configuration data you need to express? And how frequently would a human need to look at it? If the configuration you need to express boils down to a hash map, I suggestion a simple key-value format such as a properties file or even an INI file.

Also, is there anything preventing the configuration from living in the database?

Regards,

Galen

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