Re: [Confuse-devel] (no subject)

[Martin Hedenfalk]

Hello Xu Hao,

Removing the equal sign, or making it optional, would not require a 
very big change in the sources. However, it would be inconsistent with 
the "option += value" syntax. I also chose to use the equal sign 
because, IMHO, "option is equal to value" is more logical/natural than 
just "option value". I disagree that libConfuse will be much more 
useful if the equal sign is removed.

What would require a bigger change, in Amits case, is that 1) some 
option names are two words (eg, "option domain-name"), and 2) section 
names include options ("subnet 204.254.239.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 
{...}").

Adding support for many different kinds of configuration files syntaxes 
is not the goal of libConfuse. Feel free to modify the sources to your 
liking.

I guess this also answers your previous question about parsing Apaches 
configuration file. I recommend that you take a look at dot.conf 
(http://www.azzit.de/dotconf/). I think it is able to parse those 
files.

Regards
/Martin Hedenfalk

2004-08-31 kl. 03.27 skrev Xu Hao:

> Hi Martin!
>
>   I read this topic 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/confuse-devel/2004-07/msg00004.html 
> this morning.
>
>   I think that what Amit said is right. If libconfuse could support 
> things like this: "ListenPort 80", "ServerRoot /var" (without the 
> "="), it will be much more useful.
>
>   I don't understand why you choose "key = value", since most linux 
> and windows configuration files don't use the "=". And I don't 
> understand why you said that "Adding support for this syntax would 
> require a very big change in the
> libConfuse library." Anyway, I didn't look into the source code 
> carefully :)
>
>   Regards
>
>   X.H.
>
>   Beijing
>
>
>
>
>
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