Just an update: 1) inilint, the setup.ini validator is coming along. It can be enabled via --enable-inilint on the configure line. It doesn't do anything just yet though, but will build successfully. 2) I had a configure.in syntax error that was breaking on-cygwin builds. That has been corrected.
In aid of 1), the io_streams code now dynamically registers the providers - ie file:// and cygfile://. Pavel - this will affect your patch (hopefully by making it simpler). I'm considering changing cygfile:// to be posixfile://, for clarity - what you do folk think? Anyway, back to inilint, I'll be adding a new file:// provider that uses the standard <iostreams> calls, so it should build on anything, and be constrained purely by the host system's path syntax. It may not have the full complement of remove/link etc available (for obvious reasons). The last step for inilint is a check-only IniDBBuilder class, and then we'll have the first setup.exe derived tool. Woohoo! Rob
