TextSQL?

[Tim Nelson]

	Mark, I've had an idea for the "editfiles" thing.  What would you 
think of an editfiles that works like SQL for text files?  There'd be more 
actions than just INSERT, UPDATE, and SELECT, so I'd suggest putting the 
actions last, but you could do (on /etc/xinetd.d/amanda):

-------------------------------------
WHERE
        CurrentBlock = "service amanda"
        AND Field(0) = "disable"
DO
        Field(1) = yes
-------------------------------------

	I'd envisage this being a separate language to cfengine, but also 
having a way to embed it in the cfengine code as suggested by the "Action 
Templating" section of Templating ideas:
http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Templating_Ideas
The above would also mean that editfiles and cfengine could develop 
independently, using one job per tool, as per the Unix philosophy.

	The above would be pretty convergent, I'd hope.  Obviously not 
until cfengine 3.0, though :).  Yes, there are problems with the above 
approach, but I think it would help us to think convergently about things.

        What do you think?

        :)

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