Re: [pacman-dev] Config file handling (was: [PATCH] Change -z|--showsize flag to ShowSize pacman.conf option)

1 Jun 2007


      On 6/1/07, Aaron Griffin  wrote:
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On 6/1/07, Dan McGee  wrote:
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Aaron and I both want to move this config file parsing to the front
end; any objections to this? It will be quite a change, but we can
make it much more robust while moving it. Is anyone familiar with how
config file parsing is done by other programs? It seems like a very
manual process currently, and a malformed config file brings pacman
down. I also think we should try to continue when we encounter an
unrecognized option.
What do you mean "other programs"? As in, an elegant parsing system?
Or how other apps parse pacman.conf?
How other C-coded apps parse their config files in general. I don't do
it often in C, so I have no idea how it is usually done.

-Dan