A BUGNOTE has been added to this bug. ====================================================================== http://dbmail.org/mantis/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000129 ====================================================================== Reported By: ilja Assigned To: ilja ====================================================================== Project: DBMail Bug ID: 129 Category: General Reproducibility: N/A Severity: feature Priority: low Status: assigned ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 30-Nov-04 09:24 CET Last Modified: 02-Dec-04 08:19 CET ====================================================================== Summary: config file parser needs to be more robust Description: The parser for the config file needs to be better and simpler. This can be easily fixed by using the "Key-value file parser" in GLib (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html)
====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ilja - 01-Dec-04 13:52 CET ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We can't use the key-value from GLib yet. It's only available from GLib 2.6, which is a bit to new for my liking. I'll go find another one (some PD code, of some examples of how to do it in the right way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaron - 02-Dec-04 08:11 CET ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This one, iniParser, looks awesome. http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/html/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaron - 02-Dec-04 08:19 CET ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There's just one major thing that prevents us from using iniparser as a stepping stone to Glib's key-value parser, and that's the comment character. Glib uses # while iniparser uses ;. Glib uses ; for separating multiple values in a field, which apparently is needed for things like the freedesktop.org specs. Anyways, it's a pretty trivial modification to make to iniparser, which we should place into the source tree rather than trying to make it a library dependency. >From the Glib key-value parser page: This syntax is obviously inspired by the .ini files commonly met on Windows, but there are some important differences: * .ini files use the ';' character to begin comments, key files use the '#' character. * Key files allow only comments before the first group. * Key files are always encoded in UTF-8. Bug History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 30-Nov-04 09:24ilja New Bug 01-Dec-04 13:52ilja Bugnote Added: 0000405 01-Dec-04 13:52ilja Assigned To => ilja 01-Dec-04 13:52ilja Status new => assigned 02-Dec-04 08:11aaron Bugnote Added: 0000409 02-Dec-04 08:19aaron Bugnote Added: 0000410 ======================================================================
