22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
5:45 p.m.
Why an .ini file? The .ini extension *means* something (Windows .ini file) - is Drupal going to have full support of the .ini specification? If not, I'd rather use .help, and stick the module name, description, and all help docs in there too. If .help isn't generic enough (for the various metadata things you mention), then use .info. But .ini *means* something and it means we either support the .ini spec fully (ugh, really?) or overload the meaning (never a good thing).
If we can use .ini-files, we should. No need to invent our own file format/parser. PHP has built-in functionality to parse .ini-files: http://php.net/parse_ini_file -- Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net/