On 1/4/14 10:00 AM, Michael Neumann wrote: > > Am 04.01.2014 18:38, schrieb Corey Richardson: >> oslo.config looks decent. On some projects I've worked on, we started >> out using INI files but found them severely lacking once we wanted to >> extend the options. We ended up using libconfig[0], which I think is >> an excellent library. In multibuilder[1], we use extra::serialize to >> load a config directly into the struct we'll be using. It's super >> convenient, but a bit unfortunate in that it's impossible to make a >> field truly optional (Option<T> requires the field to be null, iirc). >> >> [0] http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/ >> [1] https://github.com/huonw/multibuilder/blob/master/main.rs#L68 > > There is also TOML [1], an extended version of the INI config file format, > which is used by a variety of languages. > > [1]: https://github.com/mojombo/toml > > Regards, > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > . >
I've used YAML, JSON, and INI extensively for configuration, and I confess that each have their problems. I agree that TOML is an excellent idea (I wrote the Common Lisp TOML parser). I just don't know off-hand how widely its been picked up in the past year. -- Regards, Paul
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