From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D3BBB81 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:06:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j8S766NZ008590 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:06:06 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10155 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:06:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.195]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j8S7650T008587 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:06:05 +0200 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a4so468918nfc for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:06:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I7ixoJSTMjRegnP9oONaPaKPimWB9wiseoN5TN6YAyBclwx5uiR7e5b3L+EZ/AKU1OVom63PhuOhYTTA7VjMrwcaphgnocd/GJZwhI/Ch9OJYSeAg+7gr0IFbhm1C8IFvfnKRRnIMG7UaBLIKm6KXd0mlZklmOuFwz2nR8/4a+w= Received: by 10.48.80.19 with SMTP id d19mr317611nfb; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.42.9 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3d13dcfc050928000613f42ed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:06:05 +0200 From: David MENTRE To: brogoff Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Looking for a configuration file library Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3d13dcfc05092706091acdb72a@mail.gmail.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 433A40DE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 433A40DD.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 c--:01 config:01 noweb:01 noweb:01 literate:01 ocamldoc:01 computation:01 speakeasy:01 suggestion:03 library:03 brian:03 imo:04 long:04 long:04 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Brian, 2005/9/27, brogoff : > I like the Lua-ML package used in C--. Lua is just about right as a > configuration language, especially if you wish to do some computation in = your > config file. It should satisfy your listed requirements. I did not thought about this option but this is an interesting suggestion. In the long term, I also want to add scripting capabilities to my program so that might be done both at once. > On the minus side IMO (I hate to be negative about something free) it= uses > noweb, and is not up to date with the latest version of Lua. In particula= r, > the use of noweb is annoying, but with a bit of grunt work you can undo = that. I'm already using noweb for my program, so this is not an issue for me[1]. Yours, d. [1] Even if, in the long term, I want to remove noweb in order to use a literate programing style relying on language source code, like ocamldoc.