In the beginning there was…blah, okay I won’t go that far. Though, the first host provider I used was SourceForge.net. I used that for three projects:
GFSGL, GFSI and GoldenFiles. Mostly random stuff there, not too large projects.
Then one day I thought about this and well, using a proprietary website to produce and manage a [...]
CCP 0.3 is out! The major new feature in this release is the addition of automatic uncommenting support.
CCP will now try to detect which options the user has uncommented from –oldfile and automatically uncomment them in the resulting –newfile. This should *greatly* decrease the amount of oprhaned options that occurs. Also added is an automatic [...]
This version contains multiple bugfixes, some which could cause various configuration files to not upgrade correctly. Among others, it fixes bug #15364.
In other news, the first package using CCP in Mandriva is out - which is squirrelmail :)
CCP version 0.1 has been released!
It can be downloaded from http://ccp.nongnu.org/download.html.
It’s also in Mandriva Linux (cooker) contrib.
The first package to use it is squirrelmail, which I updated today.
CCP can now autogenerate the templates, so it’s pretty much ready for real-life testing.
Here’s the same example used in earlier posts.
[0 zerodogg@drizzt ccp]$ cat example.conf
# Example configuration file
SystemVersion = 0.1
Mode = public
Extensions = off
[0 zerodogg@drizzt ccp]$ cat example.conf.rpmnew
# Example configuration file
SystemVersion = 0.1
Mode = private
Extensions = on
AllowUsers = yes
[0 zerodogg@drizzt ccp]$ ./ccp –oldfile example.conf –newfile [...]
CCP (as I wrote about earlier) now has a project on savannah. It now works! It can be downloaded from the CVS repository.
However, it doesn’t use libconf yet, and thus only supports key = value files. It also doesn’t know how to create the templates by itself so those have to be written by hand [...]
I’ve been thinking about ways to upgrade configuration files lately and I’ve come up with the idea for CCP (common configuration parser). The idea is to take one template file, one old configuration file, one definition file and one mode. To give a better example of how this would work:
ccp –type basic –mode rpmnew –template [...]