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On 10/29/2014 12:42 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Another way to do this, which has been used in some other projects,
> is to define one option for a list of “names” of things, and use
> those names to make groups with each field

I've proposed that in [1].  I look forward to some -1's :)

> OTOH, oslo.config is not the only way we have to support
> configuration. This looks like a good example of settings that are
> more complex than what oslo.config is meant to handle, and that
> might be better served in a separate file with the location of that
> file specified in an oslo.config option.

My personal opinion is that yet-another-config-file in possibly
yet-another-format is just a few lines of code, but has a pretty high
cost for packagers, testers, admins, etc.  So I feel like that's
probably a last-resort.

-i

[1] https://review.openstack.org/133138