ConfigurationComparison

The purpose of this page is to compare existing configuration solutions. This would help to see if we can merge existing solutions into just one, thus avoiding duplication of effort. At the moment we are only going to compare `ace', `ecf' and `xace'.

In the table below, we have 4 possible answers:

  • Yes: Feature is present
  • No: Feature was deliberately not supported
  • N/A: Unlike No it is not present but not deliberately
  • DNK: Do Not Know, that is to say if you know the answer, feel free to update the DNK entry.

Feel free to update this page if you feel there is a missing feature, that we have an accurate comparisons.

Feature ace ecf xace
Notion of cluster Yes Yes Yes
Recursive cluster Yes Yes Yes
Support .NET assembly Yes Yes DNK
Notion of library No Yes DNK
Notion of override cluster Yes Yes DNK
Allow multiple override cluster Yes Yes DNK
Notion of group (Cluster, Library, Assembly, Override) No Yes DNK
Enable some sort of class renaming Yes Yes DNK
Class prefixing (renaming of all classes of a group) No Yes DNK
Support for group dependencies No Yes DNK
Optional specification (i.e. option being platform, build, or user defined) No Yes DNK
Multiple targets (i.e. more than one system in a configuration file) No Yes DNK
Allow for same class name in a recursive cluster in different subdirectories Yes No DNK
Specification of includes for C/C++ externals Yes Yes Yes
Specification of C/C++ compiler options No No DNK
Specification of object files for C/C++ externals Yes Yes Yes
Reading/editing configuration file as a library No Yes DNK
Graphical front end for reading/editing configuration file Yes Yes DNK