[Freeciv-Dev] Re: do you really want to work on the ~ (was: registry)

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From: Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
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On 5 Dec 2001, Jules Bean wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 20:52, Raimar Falke 
wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:30:15PM +0000, 
Jules Bean wrote:
> > > Writing your own parser is error-prone
> > 
> > Not with flex+bison.
> 
> Different kind of error.  You can still 
make logical errors even using
> flex+bison. (You can still make logical 
errors using libxml, of course;
> I was just suggesting it's easier with a 
library).

Bah. Using flex+bison is easy as pie! :-)

> > > Alternatively, there may be 
standardised forms of the above. Doesn't
> > > the stuff libproplist uses look a bit 
like that?
> > 
> > I couldn't find an online docu in the 
first 30 matches of google. This
> > doesn't speak for the library.

> Neither could I, or I would have posted the 
link ;-)
> 
> In any case, I'm not a freeciv developer, 
so it's not my decision :)

LibPropList comes with windowmaker. Its 
basically a C library that allows
you to read some NeXTStep config file format.
Or should i say, used LibPropList, they 
removed it in favour of WINGs in
0.70.0.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto 
Superior Tecnico, Lisboa