Post #3377985
2026-04-25 21:24 UTC
@cks@mastodon.social and just like breaking UI conventions can be justified in exceptional cases, you should start with standard conventions for user facing configuration files (eg INI files)? KISS, principle of least surprise, etc.
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@pkal@social.sdfeu.org 2026-04-26 09:55
@pjacock@fediscience.org @cks@mastodon.social Are INI files really "standard" in the UNIX world? I was under the impression that that was a convention from DOS. I am not aware of a really authoritative format (at least as conventional as command line arguments starting wiyh a dash), perhaps because for a long time many systems just used shell scripts to slurp out environmental variables out of a .foorc file?