[GNUnet-developers] Config file parsing

[Glenn McGrath]

I would like make gnunet compilable against gnutls instead of openssl,
however currently gnunet uses openssl ANS1 functions to parse its config
file.

I would like to seperate the config file parsing functions from the ssl
library, i was prepared to write custom config file parsing code, however
looking around i found the dot.conf library, which does everything needed.

The major difference would be that libdotconf uses apache style config
file, which doesnt use an equals sign to seperate the field name from its
field value, just whitespace.

I think its good to use small (libdotconf is 17kB) specific libraries such
as this, code re-use etc.

I have made a standalone app that demonstrates (in part) how libdotconf
could be used with gnunet, it provides the same external functions from
configuration.c does, so it should drop in easily, its at
http://people.debian.org/~bug1/gnunet/

If there arent any major objections to the idea i will work on a patch for
GNUnet, but i would appreciate a bit of feedback before i take it much
further incase im wasting my time.


Glenn