libUCL / UCL as FreeBSD config question

[Dan Partelly]

I fully support this point of view. A short term fix is uncalled for. 


> On 20 Nov 2015, at 22:58, Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:40:15 -0500
> Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> The issue is that UCL allows comments anywhere, for example:
>> 
>> #above
>> FreeBSD: {
>>   /* before */ url:
>> "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest", mirror_type: /*
>> middle */ "srv", signature_type: "fingerprints", /* after */
>>   # under
>>   fingerprints: "/root/keys/pkg", # inline-after
>>   enabled: yes
>> }
>> 
>> Etc. So the solution that was discussed was changing libucl
>> to use an Abstract Syntax Tree, but that is a lot of work.
>> So for now, I am not sure what the best approach is.
> 
> I think an AST that keeps comments is a good approach going
> forwards.  We don't need a short-term fix that is anything
> less than that.
> 
> Best,
> Conrad
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