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why do we care about configuration files?
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:10:30 -0700
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2 ===========
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4 multi-level unified configuration for python consumption
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7 ---
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9 TODO : document this
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12 Configuration Files
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13 -------------------
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15 Config files are useful for (IMHO) A. complicated setup;
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16 B. reproducibility; C. being able to share run time configurations
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17 The latter is only useful if the configuration contains nothing
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18 machine-specific (e.g. the path to an executable might vary from
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19 machine to machine) or if the configuration is overridable from the
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