Config_file : first release

Config_file : first release

[Jean-Baptiste Rouquier]

I'm pleased to annouce the first release of Config_file.

This library allows one to save configuration parameters (basic types, lists, 
user defined, etc.) into a file and load them. The configuration file is human 
readable, structured and allow (* *) comments.

I've started with the module Options from cameleon and added full 
documentation, a few new features, rewritten in OO style (to learn OO :-), 
error logging, more secure parsing of the configuration file.

This lib is used in cameleon and in my own programms. It's available on 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/cameleon/ and on my own webpage.
It's part of cameleon2 (not yet available) but is also available separately.

Comments welcome, especially if you know other similar libs. I know Inifiles, 
Option from cameleon and I couldn't download ConfigParser from Missinglib.

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Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[skaller]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 02:32, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier wrote:
> I'm pleased to annouce the first release of Config_file.

State the licence please

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Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[Jean-Baptiste Rouquier]

> > I'm pleased to annouce the first release of Config_file.
> State the licence please
GPL version 2 or later.

Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[brogoff]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier wrote:

> I'm pleased to annouce the first release of Config_file.
>
> This library allows one to save configuration parameters (basic types, lists,
> user defined, etc.) into a file and load them. The configuration file is human
> readable, structured and allow (* *) comments.
>
> I've started with the module Options from cameleon and added full
> documentation, a few new features, rewritten in OO style (to learn OO :-),
> error logging, more secure parsing of the configuration file.
>
> This lib is used in cameleon and in my own programms. It's available on
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/cameleon/ and on my own webpage.
> It's part of cameleon2 (not yet available) but is also available separately.
>
> Comments welcome, especially if you know other similar libs. I know Inifiles,
> Option from cameleon and I couldn't download ConfigParser from Missinglib.

I think the whole reason for the little language Lua is to provide a language
for config files, so Lua-ML (used in some C-- compiler I think) is a similar
library.

Once you accept the need for doing some computation in the config file, it
seems that you want a small extension language interpreter for this task.
Scheme also works. I'm currently trying to decide between Scheme and Lua for
this task.

-- Brian

Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[skaller]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 05:05, brogoff wrote:
>  I'm currently trying to decide between Scheme and Lua for this task.

Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote a Scheme interpreter with BSD licence
in Ocaml. I integrated it into Felix in a few minutes.

Download URL http://will.iki.fi/software/ocs/
Author Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>

There is also Schoca which is GPL, hosted on
Sourceforge:

http://home.arcor.de/chr_bauer/schoca.html
Author: Christoph Bauer <ich at christoph-bauer.net>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesslib

I guess Ocaml written Scheme is better for Ocaml than Lua,
they use Ocaml GC and pure Ocaml source, and Scheme has
a standards document, whereas Lua is C and less stable.

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Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[brogoff]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2004, skaller wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 05:05, brogoff wrote:
> >  I'm currently trying to decide between Scheme and Lua for this task.
>
> Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote a Scheme interpreter with BSD licence
> in Ocaml. I integrated it into Felix in a few minutes.
>
> Download URL http://will.iki.fi/software/ocs/
> Author Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>

Thanks, I already knew of it, and it is my first choice among Schemes.

> I guess Ocaml written Scheme is better for Ocaml than Lua,
> they use Ocaml GC and pure Ocaml source, and Scheme has
> a standards document, whereas Lua is C and less stable.

It ain't what you know that hurts you, its what you know that ain't so!

You are wrong about Lua-ML. Please visit the C-- web site, read the
papers, buy the T-shirt, etc.  I'm pretty tempted to go with Lua, because
the people who'll be writing the config files for my program aren't
programmers and Lua may have more palatable syntax.

-- Brian

Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[Richard Jones]

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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:05:06AM -0800, brogoff wrote:
> Once you accept the need for doing some computation in the config file, it
> seems that you want a small extension language interpreter for this task.
> Scheme also works. I'm currently trying to decide between Scheme and Lua for
> this task.

Right or wrong, LISP-like configuration languages scare the hell out
of most ordinary users!  I still fear my .emacs file :-)

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-announce] Config_file : first release

[John Goerzen]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:32:36PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier wrote:
> 
> This lib is used in cameleon and in my own programms. It's available on 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/cameleon/ and on my own webpage.
> It's part of cameleon2 (not yet available) but is also available separately.
> 
> Comments welcome, especially if you know other similar libs. I know Inifiles, 
> Option from cameleon and I couldn't download ConfigParser from Missinglib.

FWIW, you can download it from http://quux.org/devel/missinglib or
http://packages.debian.org/missinglib (sources are there too).

-- John