Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On 5 Oct 2024 18:01:35 GMT, rbowman wrote:

The company I work for uses a system configuration file base on the ini
format.

Lots of Linux-based software does the same--look at systemd unit files,
they’re all basically .INI format. It’s such a popular format, Python even
includes a standard library module for parsing it.

There are options, some of which are extra cost, that can be turned
on if you happen to know they exist.

The common thing in the open-source world is to include comments in the
default config files explaining all the available options (even if not
used) and what they do. Either that, or have example config files in the
source tree (or even included in some documentation/examples subdirectory
as part of the install) that demonstrate the same.

For extra points, include a section-5 man page describing all the config
options.