Alternative format for the configuration file

[Otavio Salvador]

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|| On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:21:51 -0400 (EDT)
|| "Nathaniel L. Budin" <natb@brandeis.edu> wrote: 

nlb> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Otavio Salvador wrote:
fe> and some  very  easy   to fetch variable    values with  a  dictionary
fe> approach,  like   Cnf["APT::Get::Arch-Only"]  to get   the  value from
fe> apt-get.conf.
>> 
>> The way to read the file is a lot easier since APT already does it and
>> we can use this format without a parser but this, for a not so
>> experiensed user, looks more complicated and long. This is what I
>> think.

nlb> I'm not sure it'll be as easy as you think.  The most difficult part, IMO, 
nlb> of the current parser, was the variable configuration keys; for example, 
nlb> "filter_sarge" in a merge backend.  We'll still need to have those 
nlb> supported, which I doubt the parser for this format already supports.  
nlb> (Not that I've checked, but I don't imagine it would.)

I forgot it.

>> The configuration file looks very clear and flexible to me but I
>> doesn't know how much this format will improve the flexibility. This
>> is what we should think.

nlb> I also don't think this new format buys us very much in terms of 
nlb> flexibility.  True, the structure is hierarchical instead of flat, but I 
nlb> don't think a hierarchical format is necessary for a simple, one-task tool 
nlb> like debpartial-mirror.

nlb> As for compatibility with other apps - even if we switched to this format, 
nlb> I doubt you'd be able to use the same config files between APT and 
nlb> debpartial-mirror anyway, so I'm not sure where the perceived 
nlb> compatibility gain is coming from.

I agree.

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