[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Change -z|--showsize flag to ShowSize pacman.conf option

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/6/1, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>

I'm suggesting to use 3rd party library for parsing.
I see 2 choices:
1) iniparser
there is nice console app that can be used by shell scripts to parse
config (made by James):
  http://archlinux.org/~james/projects/network/iniread-0.1/
usage example:
  http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-April/000415.html

2) libconfuse
this one has nice validation features

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)