Re: [boost] Library for configuration file parsing

Subject: Re: [boost] Library for configuration file parsing
From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-28 04:07:28

On 11/25/2010 05:59 PM, Denis Shevchenko wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Is there any interest in a library for configuration file parsing?

Yes, but why do you propose a new library rather than proposing 
extensions to existing ones?

I really would like a better separation of how this sort of data is 
stored externally and how it is accessed  internally by application code 
through the library API.  Both program options and serialization provide 
that to some degree.  I am not sure of how this is with PropertyTree 
which is a third boost alternative.  I think program options lacks some 
of the desired flexibility for structure, necessity and validation, but 
that could possibly be added rather than making an all new library which 
will be confusing me and others even more.

In any case, thanks for working on this,
-- 
Bjørn