On 01/02/17 at 09:10am, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/01/17 06:48, Xyne wrote: > > Happy new year! > > > > It would be useful for third-party developers to have access to the Pacman > > configuration file parsing functions and datatypes in src/pacman/conf.h. > > Would > > you consider providing a shared library for this (or adding it to libalpm)? > > It > > would be more reliable than third-party custom parsers. > > > > Aside from providing the actual shared object file, the only change needed* > > would be to remove the lines from parseconfig (conf.c) that free > > config->repos > > so that users could access repo information directly via config->repos after > > invoking the function (config_free will free that memory later). > > > > This is on the todo list (along with adding pacconf for easy access to > the configuration from scripts). > > I don't think anyone is actively working on it... > > A
I don't particularly care about providing a config parsing lib with pacman and have no desire whatsoever to figure out how to get autotools to make such a lib. If it's something we're going to do though, it would probably make sense to just incorporate the pacutils parser. apg
