[Olsr-dev] config parser

[Alexander Morlang]

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Hannes Gredler schrieb:
> changed subject and thread.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:41:16PM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote:
> 
> | > BTW: If your generator generates lots of code, you very probably doing
> | > something wrong anyways. In my experience, the generators evolve into
> | > producing tables which drive normal functions.
> |
> | I think our config file parser is one of the BAD examples... it's always a 
> | nightmare to understand what this thing is doing and how to add/change an 
> | option.
> 
> i 100% agree - one of the ideas floating around is to use libconfig
> as a drop-in replacemnt to make life easier for developers.
> 
> http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html
> 
> the API appears to be well-structured and documentation is also good.
> 

Also, Lorenz Schori already wrote some patches to use libuci, the lib
for the native config subsystem of OpwnWrt:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.olsr.devel/1786

Besides the size it is already designed to connect to different
frontends like luci or snmp, a clear advantage on embedded systems.

> /hannes
> 

Alex
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