"Jody Hagins" wrote:
As comments and whitespace are metadata the application should not have any access to them. They should NOT be editable (by the application).
I think comments *should* be available to an application, especially an application that will change or add fields to the configuration file... it would be nice to add some comments to describe the field and have them look like native comments for whichever file format is being used...
It /may/ be useful to add comment to newly created item. Creating change-log, hmm, this can generate a lot of useless fluff unless lot of care is taken. Interpreting the metadata by app could result in making sense out those funny commented out values or of empty space used to prettify the config file. IMO most would prefere specialized formatting for such comments, rather than trying to process free style metadata. One of aims should be to minimize number of changes in config file as they are treated by CVS or other tool. I am not aware of any open source library having such feature. /Pavel