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best config file format
json
key-value pairs
yaml
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RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe
rabbitmq config file is in erlang which is a Piece of poo poo

whats' the best one

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RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe
activemq uses xml

also a Piece of poo poo

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
.vimrc

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014
yaml

thebigcow
Jan 3, 2001

Bully!
XML inside the Windows registry

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

thebigcow posted:

the Windows registry

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

poll didn't have option for .ini

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

a sqlite database

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Binary blob.

second place:

Captain Foo posted:

poll didn't have option for .ini

Tankakern
Jul 25, 2007

ShinsoBEAM!
Nov 6, 2008

"Even if this body of mine is turned to dust, I will defend my country."
.txt

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
lol
if your file format needs an extension

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

time to summon shaggar

groovy

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
autoexec.bat
config.sys

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

pram
Jun 10, 2001
activemq performs like literal dogshit

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

yaml doesn't have block comments but other than that it's the perfect config file format and definitely the best one available

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe

pram posted:

activemq performs like literal dogshit

i wouldn't know but i know it's config files loving suck

Mao Zedong Thot
Oct 16, 2008


Tiny Bug Child posted:

yaml doesn't have block comments but other than that it's the perfect config file format and definitely the best one available

yaml rules i mean at least its not json

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
.cfg

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

IIS Metabase

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
executable python

`import settings` ftw

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
In best order:
  1. .plist via NSUserDefaults
  2. JSON
  3. some other key-value pair format
  4. Lua script

  5. every other format imaginable

  6. .ini file
  7. custom text file format

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
btoml

pram
Jun 10, 2001

RISCy Business posted:

i wouldn't know but i know it's config files loving suck

yes its absolutely awful. nothing is documented properly and its incredibly confusing and theres no good examples anywhere so you have to cobble it together from ancient usenet posts

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe

pram posted:

yes its absolutely awful. nothing is documented properly and its incredibly confusing and theres no good examples anywhere so you have to cobble it together from ancient usenet posts

hey wow it's just like rabbitmq then

all the documentation loving sucks

we had to pull in an actual rabbitmq developer that my coworker knows to resolve an issue we were having

pram
Jun 10, 2001
had to set up activemq as the message bus for mcollective, and it had mysterious issues like the internal storage (leveldb) corrupting and it being slow as poo poo and messages expiring/disappearing. it was for 20k+ systems so probably an impossible task for people who know nothing about it

the original guy was an absolute retard and they asked me to fix it. i searched the internet for this particular error and of course i only found one thing in google groups: a thread started by my coworker asking about the error lol :discourse:

apache projects are so loving bad

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

pram posted:

the original guy was an absolute retard and they asked me to fix it. i searched the internet for this particular error and of course i only found one thing in google groups: a thread started by my coworker asking about the error lol :discourse:

haha

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

pram posted:

activemq performs like literal dogshit

i usuallt have high expectations for dog poo poo performance but lately i am becoming dissilluaioned

pram
Jun 10, 2001
lol

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

electricity bad
Fun Shoe
.ini is the best format because it works and it's easy

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

a tcl dsl

There Will Be Penalty
May 18, 2002

Makes a great pet!
executable shell code

like any file in /etc/default

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

electricity bad
Fun Shoe

D:


never again

never again

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe

acceptable

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




jif

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!
a journey starting at "lets just parse it ourselves to keep it simple, ini has too many features" and ending at "i made our config compiler self-hosting"

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
if you run windows but not the drat nfo viewer then only god can judge your sins

Mr SuperAwesome
Apr 6, 2011

im from the bad post police, and i'm afraid i have bad news
a UI, duh

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wide stance
Jan 28, 2011

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.
A database that randomly returns integers in different sizes.

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