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Mission

• Provide non-technical users an easy way to learn and manage the configuration of their application
• Provide all users automatic configuration upgrades
• Provide developers a framework to minimize the work required to achieve this promise.

Read more to learn about objectives and properties of Config-Model

Opportunities

• Reducing non-technical user confusion and mistakes during configuration file modifications.
• Time savings time during software upgrade by providing non-interactive configuration upgrades that merge user local configuration with new configuration requirements.
• Re-using these configuration tools to manage structured data beyond configuration files.
• Encouraging project developers to re-think the structure and ease of use of their project's configuration.
• Encouraging project developers to improve their project's configuration since migration is becoming easier on end users.

Documentation

• Getting started:
  • Using Config-Model
  • Creating models
  • Creating models just for upgrades
• Maintenance
  • Fixing a model: new parameter for OpenSsh example
• Available models and backends
• Config-Model design
• Config::Model documentation on CPAN
• Other Config::Model modules and extensions on CPAN
• fosdem video about config-model
• Real life examples some usages of Config::Model

Installation

• On Debian/Ubuntu:
  • run 'aptitude install libconfig-model-perl'
  • See also the available config-model packages on Debian
• On Mageia, run 'yum install perl-Config-Model'
• Otherwise run 'cpan Config::Model'

Contacts

User mailing list:

• config-model-users at lists.sourceforge.net

Author:

• ddumont at cpan.org or domi.dumont at free.fr or dod at debian.org

Source:

• Github