INN config file parsing infrastructure

Todd Olson tco2 at cornell.edu
Thu May 4 16:33:02 UTC 2000


Hi

>According to Bill Davidsen:
> > 
> > The use of the # comment character should be clearly defined.
>
>I really would like to discourage usage of non-semantic comments...
>I agree that such comments are very useful for people that manage their
>servers by hand but if you want to use a GUI (or Web based admin tools,
>a conf managers, etc.), comments will not survive between changes.
>That's the purpose of the 'description' and 'skip' fields in incoming.conf.
>Unfortunatly, I've never had time to finish the project I've had in mind :(

Hum ...
what if the convention were to be that any # style comments
within a {} group were part of that group and were to be moved with
that group.  Would that address the need?

Regards,
Todd Olson




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