> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:04:07 +0200, > Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote: > Michael Stapelberg <michael+db20090501@stapelberg.de> writes: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> > > > > * Package name : libiniparser > > Version : 3.1 > > Upstream Author : Nicolas Devillard <ndevilla@free.fr> > > * URL : http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/ > > * License : MIT/X11 > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : stand-alone ini file parsing library > > > > iniparser is a free stand-alone ini file parsing library. > > It is written in portable ANSI C and should compile anywhere. > > As said elsewhere, there was already an ITP, and even an RFS. > However, I seem to recall having a look at this library, and running > away screaming. I believe it was done as part of reviewing something > that depended on it, I'm not quite sure anymore.. > > Nevertheless, I would still like to ask: why? Does anything depend on > this, any potential users that couldn't use something simpler? > (There's another ini parsing library, also in C, in about 100 lines > of code instead of 1500, that does pretty much everything this one > does, and is far less scary.) > I packaged it because OwnCloud depends on it. I am not a C developer, but I agree that at first glance, any library without a proper install system (ie. autotools, cmake, or even scons) sucks. The explaination from the author is that one has to edit the Makefile to suit their distribution. Regards, Valentin
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