Re: Read plugin config from a file

[Víctor M. Jáquez L. <vjaquez igalia com>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:57:42AM +0100, Iago Toral Quiroga wrote:
> El mié, 01-12-2010 a las 10:38 +0100, Joaquim Rocha escribió:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 10:31 +0100, Iago Toral Quiroga wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to work on fixing bug #636064, it is a feature request to add
> > > the possibility to load plugin configuration from a file.
> > > 
> > > Given that different apps may need different configurations for the
> > > plugins (example: each app has to use its own API keys), the way this
> > > would work is that each app ships the config files for the plugins.
> > > 
> > > One option for the file format is a key-file, which is standard, easy to
> > > use and fast to parse (GLib as you know supports this already). That
> > > would work good for almost all the use cases I can think of. 
> > 
> > For a matter of consistency, wouldn't it be better to XML files, like
> > the ones used for the plugins' information?
> 
> It is an option, but I would rather avoid using XML files for
> configuration unless it is really needed. XML parsing is slower and less
> convenient while key-files have a great support in GLib already making
> them really easy use.
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html
> 
> Actually, I would be more for proposing changing the plugin information
> files to be key-files too and remove the libxml dependency from Grilo,
> after all, we do not need XML for that and key-files are pretty standard
> in the freedesktop environment.

+1 libxml is huge dependency

vmjl

> 
> Iago
> 
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