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Instead of inventing your own syntax, why didn't you use a portable syntax like XML, JSON, YAML, or better yet, libconfig[1]? Please compare the libconfig test

by mahmud 16y ago

Instead of inventing your own syntax, why didn't you use a portable syntax like XML, JSON, YAML, or better yet, libconfig[1]? Please compare the libconfig test file to the mongrel configuration file: http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/test.cfg.txt http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/test.cfg.txt http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-190003.3 http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-190003.... The mongrel conf is a subset of libconfig; it doesn't use the more advanced features. Plus libconfig has bindings and versions of it in nearly every mainstream language. [1]http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html

alexgartrell 16y ago
The mongrel2 configuration architecture makes it pretty easy to write a libconfig configuration shell. All it would need to do is translate the libconfig stuff to sqlite. If using libconfig is a good idea, it'll win. P.s. imho, this is the cool thing about the Mongrel2 stuff. The good ideas can always win, because there really just isn't a whole lot to Mongrel2-core, and everything else is decoupled.
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zedshaw 16y ago
I thought about something like that, but wanted to duplicate the existing config file format so that people's configs would keep working (mostly). It actually had some cool advantages, like a nice psuedo variable system letting you setup variables for reuse in different parts of the config file. I haven't really seen that in other config formats, and it is damn handy.
- mahmud 16y ago
  libconfig has include directives, is far more useful to multi-instance setups. Plus you get a full type system, all in a 33k binary.
- thaumaturgy 16y ago
  I do that in the readable config file format I wrote for another web backend, and it is hella useful.
- pygy_ 16y ago
  YAML has a variable system: http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2786196 http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2786196

by mahmud 16y ago

alexgartrell 16y ago

The mongrel2 configuration architecture makes it pretty easy to write a libconfig configuration shell. All it would need to do is translate the libconfig stuff to sqlite. If using libconfig is a good idea, it'll win. P.s. imho, this is the cool thing about the Mongrel2 stuff. The good ideas can always win, because there really just isn't a whole lot to Mongrel2-core, and everything else is decoupled.

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zedshaw 16y ago

I thought about something like that, but wanted to duplicate the existing config file format so that people's configs would keep working (mostly). It actually had some cool advantages, like a nice psuedo variable system letting you setup variables for reuse in different parts of the config file. I haven't really seen that in other config formats, and it is damn handy.

mahmud 16y ago
libconfig has include directives, is far more useful to multi-instance setups. Plus you get a full type system, all in a 33k binary.
thaumaturgy 16y ago
I do that in the readable config file format I wrote for another web backend, and it is hella useful.
pygy_ 16y ago
YAML has a variable system: http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2786196 http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2786196