Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
On 12 Dec 2002 at 16:29, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
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- Will it be able to use a cfg file in addition to taking arguments
from the command line?
Yes.
Excellent! Can I put in a request at this stage? Please endeavour to make the configuration file trivial to use (e.g., as simple as BP's old tpc.cfg files) and certainly not anything complex (such as the syntax for Makefiles or specs files).
My plan is to make is complex to make it simple. :-) I.e., provide a flexible configuration language that allows redefining options, so one can, e.g., write a config file that translated BP-style options (or another style) to GPC options. This would be a one-time effort, and normal users who like BP-style options could use this config file and write their options in BP style.
The syntax for the config language will be quite similar to Pascal (not like specs ;-).
PS: if you want testers for alphas or work-in-progress, please count me in.
Fine. Of course, I'll annouce the first alpha on this list.
Frank