Runtime configuration library (with casting, validation etc...) for native releases

[alexdesousa]

@rbino

Skogsrå by @alexdesousa

I’ve developed Skogsrå a while ago, because we’ve found configurations could get messy in the long run when you have many releases. Right now, I’m using it extensively in:

• My personal project.
• Some of the open source libraries I maintain.
• The company I work for at the moment.

Though the startup I’ve developed this for doesn’t exist anymore, I kept using the library and adding the features I needed. The ones I use the most are the ones described here

Anyway, regarding the following:

@sasajuric

All this being said, I feel that we don’t need such fragmentation, and that it would be better if we somehow rallied behind a single implementation. If other authors are open to this idea, I’m up for discussing it further.

I agree with @sasajuric. We (the maintainers of all those libraries) could join forces and actually develop an Elixir built-in solution. Our experiences configuring production systems all this years might come handy when developing an unified solution.

@sasajuric

I feel we definitely need some solutions which make operator configuration simple, so in that sense, I guess it’s better to have four libs instead of zero

However, I also agree with this. This gives us a diverse ecosystem.