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

[Dan McGee]

On 6/1/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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