On Jan 22, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
We want to base it on the debian control file format
variable: value
I don't for instance see use using sections, nor do I think we should need to have comments, as users should NEVER edit this file. ever ever ever.
It's meta-information, not configuration settings.
But why would you start from scratch when a single function can do all the heavy lifting for you? The preference for a single character? ( : versus = ). It seems that development time could be put to better use than writing another file parsing routine. What are users? Aren't module developers users too? Why not give them a documented function to work against? Keep in mind that each file included adds cost. Usually 3-5msec, sometimes 10 or more per file. This is OS and configuration- dependent. If we're just talking about the modules page then that's fine, but files aren't free. Allie Micka pajunas interactive, inc. http://www.pajunas.com scalable web hosting and open source strategies