What features of ConfigObj bzr actually used?

[Matt Nordhoff]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> I just wonder what actually features of ConfigObj bzr used?
>> The main killer feature of ConfigObj IIUC is preserving config file
>> format. That's all bzr need? Or there is some other?
> 
> I think the biggest thing that is used is write-support. It is nice that
> it preserves the files and comments and such. Probably people are used
> to that, so we wouldn't want to lose it.

I keep my locations.conf nicely formatted and commented, so I'd really
hate to lose that.

I have backups of the file, so it would still be usable, but it would
really suck.

> I think ConfigObj supports nested sections somehow. I don't think we
> actually make use of that.
> 
> I don't think we use its built-in support for parsing lists, or any sort
> of special key. We pretty much just use it as a key => string map.