Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:33:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: A G F Keahan <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Subject: Re: Generic config file parser? Message-ID: <3932639F.2EFDF7F1@newsguy.com> References: <3931B325.BB166270@freenet.co.uk> <3931AAF9.BE1846A@gorean.org> <3931BF15.3D2870EF@freenet.co.uk>
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A G F Keahan wrote: > > Which does not necessarily make it bad, of course, it's just nice to > separate things out. Many UNIX applications use similar formats; you > don't have to go very far to find an example -- look at e.g. > /etc/defaults/rc.conf, which has distinct sections separated by comments > like this one: > > ############################################################## > ### Important initial Boot-time options #################### > ############################################################## > > I'll say it again -- I'm not specifically after a Windows-style config > file parser, just any similar type thing. You can find libconf on http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/, which will parse rc.conf-style files. At one point it was my intention importing it intou our tree, but I was dissuaded by my senpai, who said do it right or don't do it at all (even though it was done already :). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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