-> Would anyone else like it if the mechanism used for configuring a Quixote
-> file could be used both for Quixote itself and for application-specific
-> details?

It's easy enough to override, so I don't see any reason to complicate
things...

In the two Quixote apps I'm working on, I use a ConfigParser-style config
file, and override the Publisher configuration system to read in the
various parameters from there.  Works pretty well, especially since I
make sure to test the configuration upon import, so I can catch any
errors very easily.

--titus