On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:06:14PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 02:17:30 Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Hello, > > > Well, actually what I did was take this change, another couple of > > things (the example files, a small fix to the testing framework), and > > just go ahead and release a new upstream version, confget-1.02. > > > > A Debian package for it is available on mentors.d.n now: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/confget/confget_1.02-1.dsc > > Great. I looked at it and uploaded it. Thanks! > > Let me know if you think that I should coalesce the changelog entries > > into a single 1.02 "Initial release" one. > > Not a big deal, I passed -v, so your `Initial release. Closes: xxx' is also > included in *.changes, thus the BTS magic will work as well. Yep, I was just wondering if I remembered correctly that you liked the interim versions in the changelog even though they never made it into the archive. Apparently, I did and you still do :) > > > It is still not very clear to me how to find the full configuration file > > > syntax specification? Moreover there is neither a Standard nor a popular > > > protocol which stipulates that. How are users supposed to know the gory > > > details about it? Note that, "Anybody has looked at some INI files in the > > > past" doesn't sound extremely promising ;-) > > > > Unfortunately, as you say, there is no single standard for INI files. > > The confget utility implements some of the more popular constructs - > > sections (naturally), allowed whitespace in most positions, backslash > > line continuations, comments (both "#" and ";"). There are things that > > other parsers do that confget doesn't, like spaces *within* a variable > > name; if there is popular demand, it may learn to do that, too :) > > I don't think I would use spaces in variable names ;-) However, there is > nothing wrong to support it if you find it useful. > > > Version 1.02 of confget installs the t1.ini and t2.ini files as examples. > > Since those files' purpose until now was indeed to be contrived edge > > cases for regression testing, and examples are not generally supposed to > > be that bad (at least, not *supposed* to ;), I added some comments in > > those files so they are a bit more suitable. > > Ok, thank you. > > > Here's hoping you like version 1.02 better :) > > I was not whining for a BNF grammar ;-), but for few documentation in > order to bring closer confget's reading of INI files to the user's > writing them; that would avoid subtle discrepancies or > misunderstandings. Sure, that's how I read your message too :) No problem, examples are indeed nice to have, especially when dealing with vaguely defined stuff. Once again, thanks for all your time in this discussion! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@space.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else.
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