Re: [Bug-apl] Access to preferences

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Blake,

I think it would not be good to have everything in one file.
The reason is that this makes updates of the preferences file more
difficult. For example I could not change the file format if I needed to
and updates of a file that contains a lot of other information would
become awkward for the user.

I suggest that such information is put in a separate, per library, file 
in the
same directory as the preferences file. If the lib is shipped with GNU 
APL then
I can make sure that it will be installed with the lib

The tools for parsing such a file are already in place: sscanf() and 
fgets() in FILE_IO.

/// Jürgen


On 07/14/2014 01:26 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The preferences file contains name/value pairs.  It would be nice to 
> be able to specify arbitrary name/value pairs that can be accessed 
> from within APL somehow.  For example, let's say you store your 
> component files an a standard place, or you use a certain default SQL 
> database.  It would be nice to be able to specify those default/global 
> values in the preferences file.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake