>>>>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:20:30 +0800, Albert K T Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
akth> Hi,
akth> I would like to have a module of mine, IniFile, currently in
akth> $CPAN/modules/by-authors/id/A/AV/AVATAR/
akth> to be added to the module list and hence available from the
akth> by-modules/by-category tree. Here is a module description for your
akth> consideration please.
akth> Name DSLI Description Info
akth> ---------------- ---- --------------------------------------- -----
akth> IniFile RdpO Accesses Windows .ini and .reg files AVATAR
akth> I think it should go to the "12_Opt_Arg_Param_Proc" category.
akth> This modules provides easy access to MS-Windows style .ini files, Unreal
akth> style extended .ini files (where multiple values can be associated with
akth> a single key), as well as registry files with automatic conversion from
akth> native Perl to Windows registry data encoding and vice versa.
akth> IniFile was first released half a year ago and is used by UmodPack, an
akth> Unreal mod installer:
akth> http://umodpack.sourceforge.net/
akth> This module differs from another module, IniConf, in that this one
akth> supports single-key-multiple-value, Windows registry file format and has
akth> a different parser that may be a little more tolerant about wierd data.
IniConf is there since 1996, so it is clear that IniConf could not
decide to live in the Win32 namespace, it simply did not exist yet.
But IniFile? Why not Win32::IniFile? Isn't it strictly speaking a
Win32 module? Is there any standard associated with .ini nd .reg files
tht make it likely or even possible that these file formats will be
deployed outside Win32?
--
andreas
