[Melbourne-pm] config file parsers

[Daniel Pittman]

On 16 Feb 2005, Geoff Crompton wrote:

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> libapache-configfile-perl	Apache::ConfigFile

This is a pain to work with unless you really need something the size of
the apache configuration files, in my experience.

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> libconfig-auto-perl		Config::Auto

This is good stuff.  It just works, in one line, and lets you put pretty
much any format configuration file in place.  

Do decide on a style, though, and use that -- rather than the "guess"
stuff -- in production code.

You can't use this to save back your configuration file.

> libconfig-general-perl		Config::General

This is quite good.

> libconfig-inifiles-perl		Config::IniFiles

This is also pretty good, for simple configuration files.
It does let you save back, as I recall, the configuration file.

   Daniel

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