[SSSD] Multi-line values in INI

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Thu Apr 15 15:07:12 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:23 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: 
> Can we please come at this issue from the right direction? The reason 
> that this is even being debated is because we learned of another program 
> (certmonger) that is using INI files to store binary data.
> 
> THIS IS WRONG.
> 
... 
> In conclusion: I think attempting to solve the newline/escape problem in 
> libini_config itself is both too complex and too limiting. It is more 
> complexity being added to the libini_config than a simple INI file 
> parser needs to have, and by implementing any particular approach to 
> managing the data, we are limiting is usability to only those use-cases 
> that we can come up with.

Not that I am really part of the SSSD project, but +1 from me anyway.
Very sensible reasoning.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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