[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/9] extract ini parser from parseconfig

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Aug 7 08:57:53 EDT 2013


On 22/07/13 16:46, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> This creates a generic ini parser than can be reused for hooks or other
> configuration files.  I took a very different approach from the previous
> patchset by utilizing a callback that processes the options as the file is
> parsed.  This should have a much lower memory footprint and is closer to how we
> were already parsing config files.
> 
> Parsing differences:
> * Include directives can be outside a section.  They can include their own
>   sections so it made little sense to require that they be in one already.
> * Errors in included files are now fatal.

These patches look fine to me and it sets us up for parsing ini based
hook configuration files.

Any other comments before I commit these?

Allan




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