Mongrel2

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Use sqlite3 as its configuration storage

What a horrible idea.

What a great idea. Most processes use internal and inaccessible memory as configuration storage. When they start up, or when you issue a special command, they reload some of their configuration from a file in some custom dialect. Sometimes, configuration is exposed with some custom interface to hosted code. Django, for instance, lets you manipulate settings from your application, but there is no external interface for it.

Mongrel2 has exposed it's internal configuration storage for programmatic manipulation in an easy and standard way. If you would prefer configuring it with a file, you could create your own configuration file format and loader. Good luck doing that with, say, apache.

Umm. Yea. Right.

Good luck putting your sqlite db under version control, templating it, modifying it easily from the commandline, etc.

The idea is just idiotic, especially considering how little configuration is needed in first place for something like a mongrel.

There's a reason why almost all services expose their configuration in a more or less human readable file.

Zed is doing some cool stuff at the moment, loving his work.

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