[PATCH] TreeConfig should support sections
John Arbash Meinel
john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu Jul 27 19:27:58 BST 2006
Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Sections are used in the locations config file - each url is a section.
>>>
>>> But we dont have sub-sections. So a setting in branch.conf in a named
>>> section cannot be represented in locations.conf.
>
> bzrlib.util.configobj.ConfigObj can represent sub-sections. This
> limitation is purely due to bzrlib.config.ConfigObj.
>
>>> I'm really -1 on this until we decide how the things should interact. It
>>> seems like we're shooting our foot off otherwise.
>
> I think it's terribly limiting to require all settings to be in one
> section. Anyhow, a bug is a bug. If we're not going to support that
> parameter, we should make it throw when it's supplied.
>
> Aaron
At this point, I don't really care. I think we should fix it in one way
or another.
I don't think we need to explicitly make 'section' deprecated, since we
know it never worked.
But we should either remove/deprecate the functionality, or fix it.
How does ConfigObj *represent* nested sections? As far as I can tell, it
isn't something that INI format supports.
I suppose you could do:
[section]
subsection =
more = stuff
others = true
I did see that ConfigObj supports nesting. I just didn't see any way for
it to be written to disk cleanly.
John
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