On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 10:36 -0700, Rob Riggs wrote:
4. A scripting language might not match user expectations. Especially on POSIX-style systems, users (and even more so, administrators) have a general understanding of the "look and feel" of a configuration file. For that, Boost Program Options offers a reasonable option. I think
On 11/27/2010 07:24 PM, Hal Finkel wrote: that this proposal for is for something with more features than one has with Program Options.
I think that is partially true. Boost.Program_options offers the parse_config_file function, but that only parses a simple INI-like format. For example, it is not natural to use named nested subsections in an INI file. Regardless, even parse_config_file will often be more appropriate than using an embedded scripting language. -Hal
Rob
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