Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:36:11 +0200 From: Dan Partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> To: Conrad Meyer <cemeyer@uw.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libUCL / UCL as FreeBSD config question Message-ID: <BBE2B74D-104E-49A6-B780-C26635FFA23D@rdsor.ro> In-Reply-To: <20151120125846.31d4f4cc@m> References: <5B598F72-C5DD-48FD-866D-F90E117D646E@rdsor.ro> <564F6118.5030702@freebsd.org> <1448048197.2765.74.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <564F771F.4060408@freebsd.org> <20151120125846.31d4f4cc@m>
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I fully support this point of view. A short term fix is uncalled for.
> On 20 Nov 2015, at 22:58, Conrad Meyer <cemeyer@uw.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:40:15 -0500
> Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> The issue is that UCL allows comments anywhere, for example:
>>
>> #above
>> FreeBSD: {
>> /* before */ url:
>> "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest", mirror_type: /*
>> middle */ "srv", signature_type: "fingerprints", /* after */
>> # under
>> fingerprints: "/root/keys/pkg", # inline-after
>> enabled: yes
>> }
>>
>> Etc. So the solution that was discussed was changing libucl
>> to use an Abstract Syntax Tree, but that is a lot of work.
>> So for now, I am not sure what the best approach is.
>
> I think an AST that keeps comments is a good approach going
> forwards. We don't need a short-term fix that is anything
> less than that.
>
> Best,
> Conrad
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