What's A Configuration Framework Not?

• Not an application framework
  • You could try to do your whole application this way, but it would be ugly.
  • Automatically-generated interface to something which would otherwise have no interface at all.
• Not neccessarily web-based
  • This only covers web configuration frameworks, but an ncurses or pyGTK framework would work on the same principles.
• Neither floor wax nor desert topping