2009/8/19 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>:
>>> To have level or tree-like model you can use '.' as a name separator
>>> it will make the system uniform with current FreeBSD booting.
>>
>> XML/CSS is not the easiest format to work with but a bunch of
>> variables which represent a tree is not nice either.
>>
>> However, apt has settings format that allows to specify variables both
>> separately and as trees (using {} nested blocks).
>>
> Do you mean sth like
> set root {
> branch {
> value = key;
> }
> }
> ?
> This would effectively promote 'set' to a keyword of grub-sh scripting
> language but I'm ok with this.
Yes, something like that.
I am not sure how the configuration parser currently works and what
are the implications of adding this syntax.
But having a shorthand
set root.branch {
value1=key1;
value2=key2;
value3=key3;
}
for
set root.branch.value1=key1;
set root.branch.value2=key2;
set root.branch.value3=key3;
is good for several reasons. At the very least it reduces typing,
enhances readability somewhat, and allows for more modular
construction of multilevel menus or such.
apt uses :: for separator (not .) and any :: can be replaced with {
and has to be closed with } then.
Thanks
Michal
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