On 03.12.2018 16:07, Michael Pilato wrote: > On 12/3/18 3:15 AM, Julian Foad wrote: >> It makes me uncomfortable to depart from standard parsing. What if >> users are relying on Python ConfigParser or other compatible parsing >> as part of their Subversion authz infrastructure? > We needn't keep this hypothetical. ViewVC is using (a slightly > modified[*]) Python ConfigParser in this way. > > -- Mike > > [*] By default, ConfigParser (well, really the RawConfigParser it > subclasses) lowercases option names, which can cause username/group > matching to fail. So ViewVC's code replaces the optionxform method of > ConfigParser with a noop lambda function. (See > https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html#ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.optionxform > for official docs.)
Interesting. Of course, our ConfigParser-like implementation already has the option to treat section names as case-sensitive, and this option is used ... that's righjt, by the authz file parser. -- Brane
