At 12:36 AM 6/3/98 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > >> Of course it's viable. It just becomes a package maintainer >> responsibility. In the vast majority of cases, the package maintainer >> ought to be able to use the *same code* as the package itself for >> parsing config files. >> >> In many well factored cases, this will be as simple as extracting >> config.c or some similarly named file from the distribution and making >> a few changes to it. > >no, it's not that simple. > >it needs to read and parse the config file, allow the user to manipulate >it, and then write it back out again (if the user chooses to save any >changes) WITHOUT losing any information, including comments and the >order of the comments. >
I believe linuxconf will error out if it can't parse the config file. Craig, would you be happy if there was a built in exception handeling mechanism into linuxconf that would give a nice error when linuxconf couldn't parse a file. Shaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
