libconfig-model-perl

module for describing and editing configuration data

Config::Model is a Perl framework that enables project developers to provide an interactive configuration system for their software. It supports various frontend interfaces (graphical, curses-based or plain terminal) to users. It handles configuration files semantically rather than syntactically, meaning that developers can specify the structure and constraints of the data along with a mechanism to read and write the files. Using the structure and constraint information, Config::Model will generate interactive configuration editors that include help and data validation. It is equally simple to use graphical (via Tk) interfaces as well as curses- and ReadLine-based terminal interfaces. Config::Model also provides a facility to help configuration data upgrade that can be triggered during package upgrades. Config::Model provides configuration model and editor for: - popularity-contest - fstab (/etc/fstab) - multistrap Other configuration editors are available with other libconfig-model-*-perl packages. Depending on which suggested or recommended modules are installed, Config::Model provides several user interfaces: - shell-like interface (with any of lib-term-readlin-*-perl) - virtual file system where each config parameter is mapped to a file (with fuse package) - graphical user interface (with libconfig-model-tkui-perl)