whatfiles VS libelektra

https://github.com/spieglt/whatfiles may be useful to find such files

I don't really know how many users I have, so I don't know how "meaningful" my projects are, but I have found some of them posted on French, Chinese, Greek, Russian blogs etc., so hopefully they fill some people's needs besides my own.

https://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet

https://cloaker.mobi

https://github.com/spieglt/cloaker

https://github.com/spieglt/whatfiles

https://github.com/spieglt/winage

I learned to program because I was frustrated that after working in IT consulting for several years, I still had no idea how computers worked. I started with "Learn Python the Hard Way" and "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python". Then got a job doing some Windows consulting stuff, and they said they'd hire me as a software engineer if I learned Go, which was a pretty easy step from Python. I'd tried to learn programming as a kid several times and always found it too frustrating. I started working on side projects as a way to learn new languages, improve my resume, and scratch my own itches. The hardest part was coming up with ideas for useful/worthwhile projects. I was super frustrated one day that the easiest way to get a file between two machines that were right beside each other was sending them out to the internet via Google Drive or Dropbox, which made me want to write "cross-platform AirDrop", which became Flying Carpet. If you find yourself wanting a simple piece of software that seems like it should already exist, that's a great project idea.

It should also report the syntax and so on, and actually you want a way to directly modify configuration values. So if you think this through, you will end up with something like https://www.libelektra.org

While I'd like to see something like this, I'm not sure if it would have a realistic chance to be accepted by most BSD users. Still I'd like to propose Elektra for that purpose. It's permissively licensed (BSD 3-clause), well thought-out and documented, very flexible and upstream would be happy to work together with the BSDs. I also like their "context-aware configuration" model. They haven't been terribly successful on Linux as each and every system component is being maintained by someone else, but on a BSD with full control over a dependable base system it has a lot of potential.