From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: config files proposal
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:33:29 GMT
Date: 2002-06-10T01:33:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D03E1AD.80EB805D@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wkelfgrx4b.fsf@acm.org
Stephen Leake wrote:
> > Configuration tasks are simpler if the config file is commented and
> > handling comments is difficult if you use an API call to write to
> > the file.
>
> Good point; I hadn't thought of that.
>
> I think this makes XML a better idea; we can allow for a "comment" tag
> that is saved in the memory image, and written back out.
Or simply allow an association of a comment string with each config value.
It gets filled in when read, or left out when written. It doesn't take XML
to do this.
-- This is comment one
key1=value1
-- This is comment two
key2=value2
--
Darren New
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2002-06-02 16:07 config files proposal Stephen Leake
2002-06-02 21:29 ` Darren New
2002-06-02 22:00 ` Darren New
2002-06-02 22:16 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-03 4:20 ` Darren New
2002-06-09 20:16 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 1:33 ` Darren New
2002-06-10 12:35 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 15:42 ` Darren New
2002-06-10 14:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-03 14:56 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-03 16:08 ` Darren New
2002-06-03 16:24 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-06-03 16:50 ` Darren New
2002-06-04 11:07 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-04 19:55 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-09 20:43 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-09 20:39 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 1:33 ` Darren New
2002-06-10 10:17 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-09 20:29 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 1:33 ` Darren New
2002-06-10 18:58 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-11 18:11 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-03 15:13 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-04 15:41 ` Antonio Duran
2002-06-04 15:51 ` Darren New
2002-06-05 10:17 ` Antonio Duran
2002-06-05 14:31 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-05 19:12 ` Syntactically correct spanish identifiers (Was: config files proposal) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-06-06 1:49 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-07 8:07 ` Antonio Duran
2002-06-07 15:37 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-09 20:54 ` config files proposal Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 1:33 ` Darren New [this message]
2002-06-10 12:40 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 15:45 ` Darren New
2002-06-11 13:15 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-11 16:36 ` Darren New
2002-06-12 7:40 ` Volkert Barr
2002-06-12 15:45 ` Darren New
2002-06-13 8:17 ` Volkert Barr
2002-06-13 13:20 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-13 13:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-11 13:09 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-13 15:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-04 17:06 ` Darren New
2002-06-09 21:01 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-06 7:57 ` Volkert Barr
2002-06-06 10:04 ` sk
2002-06-06 11:33 ` Volkert Barr
2002-06-06 13:56 ` sk
2002-06-07 8:24 ` Volkert
2002-06-07 9:01 ` Jason King
2002-06-07 11:01 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-07 17:06 ` Darren New
2002-06-07 17:13 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-07 17:33 ` Darren New
2002-06-07 18:26 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-09 21:08 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-07 15:07 ` Volkert
2002-06-07 15:12 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-09 21:16 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-09 21:05 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-13 9:08 ` Antonio Duran
2002-06-13 14:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-13 21:04 ` Antonio Duran
2002-06-14 16:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-13 18:38 ` Ted Dennison
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2002-06-14 0:19 Config_Files proposal Stephen Leake
2002-06-18 17:07 Stephen Leake
2002-06-18 21:55 ` Darren New
2002-06-19 16:11 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-19 16:51 ` Darren New
2002-06-19 18:39 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-19 19:48 ` Darren New
2002-06-20 14:03 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 16:36 ` Darren New
2002-06-20 17:49 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-06-20 20:00 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 20:16 ` Darren New
2002-06-20 20:45 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-21 2:06 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-21 12:55 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-24 13:20 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-21 15:29 ` Darren New
2002-06-24 13:16 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-24 15:06 ` Darren New
2002-06-24 17:09 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-24 17:57 ` Darren New
2002-06-24 18:53 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-24 21:24 ` Darren New
2002-06-29 3:15 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-28 23:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-06-29 3:01 ` Ted Dennison
2002-07-01 20:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-07-02 0:31 ` Ted Dennison
2002-07-02 4:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-07-05 21:51 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-20 19:54 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-19 6:53 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-06-19 15:18 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-19 15:08 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-19 16:18 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-19 16:53 ` Darren New
2002-06-19 18:22 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 13:12 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-24 13:09 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-24 15:08 ` Darren New
2002-06-24 17:13 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-24 17:59 ` Darren New
2002-06-24 19:04 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-24 21:29 ` Darren New
2002-06-25 12:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-25 12:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-19 21:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-19 18:20 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-21 20:04 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-24 13:39 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-19 16:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-20 13:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-06-20 13:53 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-20 14:19 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 15:37 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-19 18:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 1:35 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-20 14:10 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 20:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-06-20 20:58 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-21 2:21 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-24 13:22 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-20 1:37 ` Ted Dennison
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