[pacman-dev] Parsing config file question

[Dan McGee]

On 7/27/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:43:32AM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
> > On 7/27/07, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net> wrote:
> > > Why does pacman do this...
> > >
> > > if(strcmp(key, "ShowSize") == 0 || strcmp(upperkey, "SHOWSIZE") == 0)
> > >
> > > Is there any reason why we can't do...
> > >
> > > if(strcmp(upperkey, "SHOWSIZE") == 0)
> >
> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7235
> >
> > That should explain most of it. What it came down to was options
> > containing the 'i' character- in the Turkish locale, upper(LogFile) !=
> > LOGFILE. There are two 'i-like' characters, one with a dot and one
> > without and it was causing issues. Thus the seemingly duplicate checks
> > in our code.
> >
>
> Well, I couldn't find the explanation you just made in that bug report.
> Actually I couldn't find this information anywhere. Maybe the quick description
> you just made deserves to be in the code itself?

Hmm, probably a good call. I'll put it on my TODO list.

-Dan