[Config4gnu-developer] libconf status

[Justin Y. <ju...@sk...>]

Dams,

I've got some questions about your libconf layer.  We've made some basic
modifications and Jason has written a basic translator to convert the
perl structure to XML (but not the other way around).  I downloaded your
tarball dated the Oct 25th and it seems to have some diff-like lines in
the perl.  I was wondering if you could provide a current version of
libconf, if it has been modified in the last week or so.

Jason wrote a basic converter to XML and I was wondering if you would
prefer this so that the perl structures can still be used by libconf, or
if you would accept changes that made libconf natively output XML.  I'm
not sure what difference one or the other makes in the end, but its a
question nonetheless.  We won't spend too much time writing fancy
translators if you'll soon be going to XML, we'll just do what we need
to use its basic features.

A question related to this would then be do you have libconf in CVS
someplace so that we could check in any changes we make to it?  If you
don't have it in CVS right now, we can add it to our repository on
SF.net if you like.  We'd like to help you work on it if thats alright
with you, since it seems your basic design of libconf works well.

I also just noticed that libconf is released under the GPL.  Is there
any particular reason why you chose that over the LGPL, or do you have
anything against using the LGPL?  We had chosen the LGPL so that other
software (commercial or otherwise) could use CFG, but I don't pretend to
fully understand the whole licensing mess.  My basic understanding is
that the LGPL is less restrictive but maybe you have some insight from
working w/ Mandrake.

Thanks,

Justin

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