[Olsr-dev] config parser

Hannes Gredler (spam-protected)
Mon Sep 8 13:14:19 CEST 2008


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.

/hannes




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