Bug#365473: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365473: wpasupplicant: configuration file format could be less strict

Kel Modderman kelrin at tpg.com.au
Sun Apr 30 11:23:59 UTC 2006


Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.4.8-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
>    Maybe the configuration parser could be less strict. The following
> for instance is invalid, just because of the spaces around "=":
>
> network = {
>     ssid = "mynetwork"
>     psk = "wootwoot"
> }
>
>    Having spaces around "=" improves readability and I do not think it
> would be hard supporting that.
>   

Can you provide a patch to upstream to implement that?

Personally, I do not think its worth any effort, readability is fine and 
the syntax is well documented (I stress, that is my opinion only).

Thanks, Kel.




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